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Popular senior denied diploma because of too much cheering (Video of barely literate senior)
WCPO ^ | 6/4/2012 | Scott Wegener

Posted on 06/05/2012 5:38:45 AM PDT by TSgt

CINCINNATI - Winning football teams are use to a lot of cheering.

But for the second leading tackler of the Mt. Healthy Fighting Owls, cheering has earned Anthony Cornist a penalty he doesn't think he deserves.

"It's crazy how somebody can do that to you," he said from his family's living room Monday.

When Anthony walked across the stage at his high school graduation, his family made some noise.

"It was my dream to graduate," he said.

"I'm very proud of my son," Traci Cornist said.

Apparently, so were a lot of others.

"Teachers, other students and other family members who weren't with us were also cheering for him also. He's well known," Traci said.

The excitement proved too much for the administration.

Instead of a diploma, Anthony got a letter from the principal, Marlon Styles, Jr.

"I will be holding your diploma in the main office," the letter said, "due to the excessive cheering your guests displayed during the rollcall."

"I did nothing wrong except walk across the stage," Anthony said.

The school demands 20 hours of community service before he can graduate.

Those hours can be split between Anthony and his family, or the senior can perform them all himself.

"I don't understand how he's being punished for something he has no control over," Traci said. "I just thought that was ludicrous...I have no clue where the logic comes in."

Calls to the principal, the district superintendent as well as a visit to Mt. Healthy High School have all gone unanswered.

Anthony's mother says so will the penalty.

"He's definitely not doing the community service," she said. "I'm definitely not doing the community service."

That strategy could spell trouble for Anthony's game plan.

"I have a college right now that definitely needs my diploma," he said.


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To: TSgt

The school demands 20 hours of community service before he can graduate.

Those hours can be split between Anthony and his family, or the senior can perform them all himself.


At least he’ll find out which ones are his “true supporters.”


61 posted on 06/05/2012 7:31:58 AM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse
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To: Beagle8U

“Public schools are a massive waste of money that does nothing but pass out bloated salaries to union slugs for a part time job.”

That’s half of it; the other part is that it funnels taxpayer dollars into the Democratic Party.


62 posted on 06/05/2012 7:34:49 AM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: Trailerpark Badass

I’m not being obtuse- I went to the graduation and nobody printed or posted behaviour rules, nobody had air horns, everybody clapped and cheered, and we got out of there in about 90 minutes including three musical numbers, salutatorian and valedictorian, principal, and superintendent speeches. Also nobody got reprimanded for excess vigor.

Please explain why that’s so wrong.


63 posted on 06/05/2012 7:39:46 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: momtothree; TSgt

>>but he obviously passed all the academic requirements to graduate high school.

So he showed up enough to enable the school to collect sufficient tax monies for the administrators to be happy and is able to fog a mirror?


64 posted on 06/05/2012 7:53:00 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Postman

They have a program called Novanet for those that fail classes to retake them over the internet.


65 posted on 06/05/2012 8:00:05 AM PDT by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: mkjessup

the family should sue the living shit out of them.

One million percent agree and I hope he wins a couple million too. This is the dumbest thing I have heard and I have heard of a lot of crap from schools. Thinking the guests are under the school’s direction....F’em. Community Service???? If that was my child, I would tell that school to go somewhere hot. Seriously this is repulsive.


66 posted on 06/05/2012 8:11:19 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: Pecos

Or perhaps you are shocked beyond belief that the person actually graduated.

Hey leave my parents alone....


67 posted on 06/05/2012 8:14:43 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: CatherineofAragon

Voila is French for “look there” or “look at that.” Viola is a string instrument.

The number of bastardized colloquialisms in contemporary conversation is baffling. I spent a lot of time in graduate school writing papers about it, and the numbers are growing exponentially every generation.


68 posted on 06/05/2012 8:31:21 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: TSgt

Put the stupidity of the HS administration aside and painfully watch this child try to read his letter of suspension. If this doesn’t break your heart and rev up your anger at government education nothing will. This is an 18 yr old who is barely literate. This is a child who will have great difficulty competing in the real world. Why isn’t this the thrust of the story and why aren’t the administrators under the microscope for this duty dereliction rather than this child’s fans?


69 posted on 06/05/2012 8:47:59 AM PDT by mort56
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To: TSgt

Maybe they mistook graduation for a movie theatre showing
Tyler Perry’s “Madea”.


70 posted on 06/05/2012 9:01:28 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: ArrogantBustard

They should just mail the diplomas and end the circus.

Big deal. You graduated. You’re supposed to. Do you want a diploma for not going to jail,too?


71 posted on 06/05/2012 9:03:54 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: TSgt
Have 2 kids now who have graduated from HS.

Had no idea before that; that this low class custom existed. People hooting and hollering when their kid walking across the stage.

Just another small indicator of cultural decline. People have no restraint or sense of decorum.

72 posted on 06/05/2012 9:10:14 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (We are the 53%. 47% of Americans pay no taxes; end the free ride...)
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To: TurboZamboni

The execrable Tyler Perry and his works are a case of art imitating (and maybe, a little, exaggerating) life.


73 posted on 06/05/2012 9:23:05 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: TSgt

Wow, I thought the “barely literate” thing was just hyperbole...but you weren’t kidding.


74 posted on 06/05/2012 9:27:08 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: elpadre

Agreed. The same rules were repeated ad nauseum at my graduation in 1998. Want to guess the skin color of 99% of the violators? We all know rules don’t apply to them in any way.

Still, if this kid met the bottom-of-the-barrel academic standards of this school, then he should get his diploma.


75 posted on 06/05/2012 9:34:24 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: X-spurt
What a sorry state of affairs, only 7 months and has the audacity to comment!

It isn't about any 'audacity' it is about your statement about FR being "invaded by sue-freaks" and considering that your sign up date is indeed only 7 months ago, it begs the question as to how you would know such a thing, being a relative newcomer to FR. Your premature exasperation suggests that I hit a nerve. TFB.

Only an optical illusion, sometimes dates will fool ya, especially if you drift over from DU in 03.

Clearly, you are now talking out of your ass.

If all you've got is weak lameass noob bully horsedoo, that explains the liberal mindset of SUE - SUE - SUE and blind support for public education.

You are demonstrating your inability to comprehend what the thread is all about. This is not about the issue of 'public education', it is about a student who was deemed eligible to receive his diploma, and because the fascist jackboot of a principal didn't like the fact that the kid got cheered by friends and family, decreed that he could not receive his diploma until he does 20 hours of community service.

Here's a clue, n00b:

TRY STAYING ON TOPIC.
76 posted on 06/05/2012 9:34:41 AM PDT by mkjessup (Eternal Vigilance (aka FReeper Tom Hoefling) has my vote for President in 2012.)
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To: Venturer
The letter was obviously written before the cheering even started.

Is he pricipal Prescient?

Think real hard about the possibilities here. I know you can do it.

77 posted on 06/05/2012 9:38:32 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Doogle

It seems pretty clear to me.


78 posted on 06/05/2012 9:42:20 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: rarestia

It would be interesting to see a list or summary of them. Then again, maybe I don’t want to, LOL.


79 posted on 06/05/2012 9:56:56 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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To: CatherineofAragon

I wrote a 64-page (double-spaced) essay on it. I came up with 111 of them and discussed about 40.


80 posted on 06/05/2012 10:34:21 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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