1. I have witnessed, on many occasions, certain elements of our society who lack self-control and decorum, disrupt these events.
2. Watch the video of the "Senior" attempt to read the disciplinary letter from the school. It's obvious that his popularity didn't come from his academic accomplishments.
Regardlesss of the student’s academic skills (or lack thereof), the imposition of a penalty upon a student who was entitled to receive his diploma smacks of a dictatorial, fascist attitude on the part of the principal and the school, and the family should sue the living shit out of them.
??????..let's hope they have a translator
We had a girl I failed THREE TIMES until she was put on an internet based class graduate this year. Her family brought AIR HORNS and were escorted out.
Don’t spike the ball, don’t dance when you score, don’t put your fist in the air, don’t demonstrate anything at all when you score- you may make the opponent feel bad.
I think the diploma issue comes from the Progressive’s obsession with “fairness” and “equal outcome”.
What if some other family did not cheer as loud, some other student didn’t get to feel as much love- isn’t that unfair?
So we’ll teach them a lesson in fairness. That joy he felt is to be crushed under disapproval and community service. Not only does it punish the gross unfairness of cheering for one student louder than others, the slighted parties can all feel vindicated without ever having to come out and say how hurt they were.
When can we finally rid ourselves of the scourge of public education.
The kid spends 13 years at school and doesn’t learn much. They withhold his diploma. He now will sue them, and folks like me have to pick up the tab for the whole thing. My parents didn’t go to public school, neither did I nor did my children. Now, I’m the one ultimately footing the bill for this non-sense.
Liberal mind set of the administrators...can’t take the slightest step out their prosribed PC “education.” Denying him a diploma over the cheering is ludicrous. I cheered for each of my five kids when they took that walk in High School. and have done so for their college walks as they come too.
However, he is also the result of that same liberal indoctrinated education system which dumbs down all kids to fit the lowest common denominator and is much more about Union power and tenure and money for large administrative staffs than it is about education.
If he can’t read, he should not receive a diploma. But that same group of people who would deny him a diploma for beeing too loudly cheered...denied him the chance to actually earn the diploma by passing him on to the next grade and the next and the next...even though he couldn’t read.
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Pity the kid whose family obeys the rule.
” I have witnessed,on many occasions,certain elements of our society who lack self-control and decorum,disrupt these events.”
This behavior is encouraged in a sporting events and their church.
The only two places they are used to.
We are melanin stupid.
“It is obvious that his popularity didn’t come from his academic accomplishments”.
So what? He’s not the brightest crayon in the box but he obviously passed all the academic requirements to graduate high school. The principal is way out of line... demanding 20 hours of “community service” and the letter suggested he and/or his family can perform that “punishment”. A principal can’t demand that a parent perform community service (that is a job for a Judge). There are other ways to control a graduation. Have the main speaker request all applause be held until the last student receives his or her diploma. That way... if someone starts to cheer.. everyone else will look at them. I’ve seen that firsthand and it actually works. No one wants to be the “odd” person out.
Speaking of academic accomplishments -
“CINCINNATI - Winning football teams are use to a lot of cheering.”
Should be “used”. How are these people allowed to write articles?
Hell I’ve got issues with the community service requirement alone.
...”Watch the video of the “Senior” attempt to read the disciplinary letter from the school. It’s obvious that his popularity didn’t come from his academic accomplishments”...
He seems like a nice kid, but I wonder whether others are also disturbed that he is headed to college and can hardly read. Will he learn to read better in college or will he be shunted through to then get some kind of job in authority over of a lot of people because of football skills? Does education seriously mean anything, anymore? A big part of education is discipline in all ways..And, that means decorum at public events.
If the students and parents were warned about this, which they probably were, then it’s too bad. Other people have a right to enjoy their graduation ceremony without it turning into a hooting and hollering contest.
Wow, one sentence paragraphs.
Is the author of this piece a graduate of the same school?
If he has met the academic standards set by the State or County Board of Education, then he has "graduated" regardless of whether he receives a copy of the actual diploma or not. He can't be "ungraduated" by a principal or anybody else.
No College I have ever heard of wants a copy of your high school diploma (too easy to forge one). They want your academic transcripts straight from the Board of Education, and as long as the transcripts show that you completed the required coursework they don't care in the least if you have the actual diploma or not. Ditto with most jobs he might apply for.
So unless he really wants the piece of paper to hang on the wall, he should just let the principal go pound sand.
This is a fairly standard arrangement these days. My son just graduated Friday, and everyone knew - cheer for your kid, earn him some detention time (one Saturday detention per cheer).
One hundred ninety-six young men crossed the sanctuary to receive their diplomas. Not a peep was heard from the audience.
There are time management issues, here. Cheering, applause, etc., for 196 folks would add substantially to the ceremony, which already clocks out at over 2 hours. In our case, the graduation ceremony was held in a very large church that is booked with other graduation ceremonies, back-to-back, and then needs to fit in actual Masses between those graduations. There just isn’t time for cheering each individual student as he receives his diploma.
I’ve been to about eight HS graduations in the last few years and there is a common pattern of serious disruption by those “certain elements.” The kids are warned of consequences in advance if they violate the rules, but they persist in ruining the event for others in attendance. No sympathy here.
OT, but did you notice this is the “Mt. Healthy” high school? It sounds like Michelle Obama must have forced the school to change their name recently. Now they need to change their mascot from the “Fighting Owls” to something more nutritionally acceptable — say the “Mt Healthy Fighting Fennels” or the “Mt. Healthy Carrot Chompers” or perhaps the “Mt. Healthy Celery Stalkers.”
What’s he going to do with a diploma anyway?
The letter was obviously written before the cheering even started.
Is he pricipal Prescient?
The kid obviously is no brain trust and will be a waste of a good college education, except for that colleges football team.
However he was passed on for whatever reason and to deny him his diploma at that late date is BS.