7 people arrested after cheers erupt at SC graduations(High School)

AP via N&R ^ | 6/11/08 | PAGE IVEY

[Rebelbase]

Circus of the absurd.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Can you get more uptight than these people? What, were they potty trained at gun point?

[GulfWar1Vet]

Got something plugged up there....

[CindyDawg]

They told us this 15 years ago when my oldest graduated. After all he went thru to get there...well half the gym would have went to jail.

[Huntress]

I recently attended the high school graduation of a cousin. There were about 250 kids in his class, and each got cheered on by family and friends as he or she walked across the stage. The school officials announcing the names were loud enough and efficient enough to be heard of over the cheers and didn’t let that disrupt them. It was a very nicely done event.

[Clock King]

Are cops just stupid for going along with this?

[aggie21]

This sounds like an offshoot of the PC church.

[CindyDawg]

They told us this 15 years ago when my oldest graduated. After all he went thru to get there...well half the gym would have went to jail.

[My Favorite Headache]

God..they needed a DUI check point at my graduation..I can only imagine how many of us would have wound up in jail for screaming. We could have taken our class picture behind bars probably.

[The KG9 Kid]

Because arresting people for cheering at graduations is precisely what the Founding Fathers intended.

[Liberty 275]

It will one day be illegal in America to cheer ANY individual accomplishment. Only the collective may be cheered.

[Huntress]

Last year in Galesburg, Ill., five students were denied diplomas from the city's lone public high school after enthusiastic friends or family members cheered for them during commencement. Students could get their diplomas after completing eight hours of public service for the school district.

I am not particularly litigious, but I think I would probably sue before I'd grovel before some petty tyrant educrat who would deny me the diploma I earned because a relative or friend dared to cheer for me.

[the invisib1e hand]

What, were they potty trained at gun point?

LOL.

Z-E-R-O tolerance, baby.

[Shooter 2.5]

Good.

This is from someone who’s ear was blasted by an airhorn by the idjits sitting directly behind me.

I never did hear my son’s name called.

The last graduation I attended, we left early. The crowd was so rowdy, the school band could not be heard. The principal finally gave up trying to restore order. He had threatened to end the ceremony if things didn’t quite down and they didn’t. The police finally started escorting some of the louder ones out the door.

I could go to a rock concert and see better behavior.

[hinckley buzzard]

I've observed an increasing tendency for people to disrupt commencement proceedings with raucous noise, a form of rudeness unheard of forty years ago. I take it as an indicator of cultural decline. Whether arrest is the answer, who knows, but disturbing the peace or disorderly conduct are thoroughly justified charges in many cases I've witnessed. Idiot children need to be tamed not pampered.

[WashingtonSource]

It is absurd that they were arrested. However, the disruptions at commencements all across the country have cheapened and coarsened the event. When I graduated from high school many years ago, people sat quietly in their seats and applauded at the end. The same was true when i graduated from college even though the event was interrupted with a bomb scare.

Cheering each graduate turns a dignified event into a hog calling contest. I attended a graduation at George Mason University about 8 or 9 years ago, and the behavior in the audience was totally shameless and hugely disruptive. Some cheering sections for graduates went on and on and on.

Next year I think they should just escort the trouble makers out. I think that sends a clear enough message.

[hinckley buzzard]

...well half the gym would have went to jail.

Obviously they hadn't gone to English class.

[jonsie]

I'm sorry guys, unless you have been to today's high school graduations, you don't know what you are talking about. It is one thing to cheer for a graduate, but another to get out of control and disrupt the proceedings. Most high schools rent a space large enough to accommodate family and friends and have a certain amount of time to get through the program (large high schools graduate 500+. Usually it is around 2 hours before the next high school comes through. There is not enough time to listen to each hoop and hollering, if allowed other parents cannot here their child's name. At my son's graduation, two young "ladies" knocked down my 80 year mother-in-law on their exit to get to their “graduate”. This is well overdue. By the way, I was also a teacher at this school and the behavior was totally unacceptable for the event.

[caseinpoint]

I agree. The level of behavior is getting really bad at such ceremonies. When a high school has six or seven hundred graduates to march across the stage, such disruptions mean either extremely long ceremonies or some students don’t hear their names announced. And just escorting disruptive audience members out doesn’t do much since the disruption comes after the main part of the graduation is over and they have seen “their kid” do the walk.

I certainly would hesitate to have the kid punished for the behavior of audience members but something has to be done to restore decorum to what should be a solemn albiet joyful event. I can recall graduates acting up as they crossed the stage, air horns, screams and more as kids marched across. Sadly I think we as a culture are losing a sense of the sacred and the solemn.

For those who disagree, meet the kid afterwards in the lawn or parking lot and do a cheer for them but don’t disrupt the ceremony for everyone.

[jonsie]

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