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.
My daughter graduated HS last Friday. The school sent letters and robo calls stating that the use of air horns would not be tolorated and asked for the cheers to be held until all received their diplomas.
They did a good job, a few yells but not bad. Class size 200 kids, my daughter ranked in the top 10. The Principal mentioned that out of 70 students Wilkes Univ. (Wilkes-Barre PA) accepts into their guaranteed Pharm-D program, our school is sending 6 (almost 10%). The only thing I have to do is figure out how to pay for his.
Thank you! I'm going to pull my hair and enjoy....
LOL, you think everyone behaves that way?
Heck there are WOMEN in this country (though maybe not where YOU live) who would beat you unconscious if you asked them to be quiet so YOU could enjoy the ceremony.
Grow up.
I obviously travel with a more cultured crowd than you do. Thank you for your insight and kind words.
It is frequently the air horns that are the problem. They blow peoples ears out and make it not fun for the rest of the families. This has been a problem for a long time.
Maybe you live in a more monotone locale.
someone rang cowbells at my nephew’s graduation last week. you know the poor kid was embarrassed to death (it wasn’t my nephew’s family),
Thanks for clearing that up.
That's "e-mail". ( ducking ). Sorry, it's my pet peeve.
The "e" is a modifier, delineating the type of mail. Therefore, the phrase should be hyphenated, even though some dictionaries bastardize the language by using the phrase without one.
Carry on :)
Interesting that you bring that up. I wrote a colloquium paper on eCommerce discussing the usage of new terminology in technology, specifically the proliferation of acronyms in common conversation.
During the discussion portion, several undergrads asked me about proper construction of e-anything words, and I heard myriad corrections ranging from small-e, e-hyphen, large-e, and even e-space. I took it upon myself to do some research on the subject.
You’re not wrong, but it’s one of those things that vary so greatly from one person/culture to another that there’s no definitive source on the proper usage.
For instance, eCommerce could be e-commerce, but you often see it as I wrote it. Grammar and spelling checks will usually correct it dependent on where in a sentence the word lands, but there’s nothing that says one is right over the other. For the longest time I wrote small-e (i.e. eMail or eCommerce), but as popular discussion advances, I have a feeling that email will become a noun requiring no capitalization (i.e. improper), as it is the simplest way to write the “word.”
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