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.
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.”
“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.
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.
>>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?
They have a program called Novanet for those that fail classes to retake them over the internet.
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.
Or perhaps you are shocked beyond belief that the person actually graduated.
Hey leave my parents alone....
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.
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?
Maybe they mistook graduation for a movie theatre showing
Tyler Perry’s “Madea”.
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?
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.
The execrable Tyler Perry and his works are a case of art imitating (and maybe, a little, exaggerating) life.
Wow, I thought the “barely literate” thing was just hyperbole...but you weren’t kidding.
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.
Is he pricipal Prescient?
Think real hard about the possibilities here. I know you can do it.
It seems pretty clear to me.
It would be interesting to see a list or summary of them. Then again, maybe I don’t want to, LOL.
I wrote a 64-page (double-spaced) essay on it. I came up with 111 of them and discussed about 40.
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