Students Denied High School Diplomas

[billygoatgirl300]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 7:40pm

This makes me very upset. Why do they punish the kids because their family and friends cheered fopr them when walking across the stage?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_re_us/graduation_decorum

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 7:56pm

Huh. Well, I would welcome an Anti-Obnoxious Law in some instances...

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 7:58pm

""Lots of parents complained that they could not hear their own child's name called,"

Gosh, they must have cheered for a really LONG time.

[billygoatgirl300]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 8:01pm

Still think its messed up. The kids have to do work for the school if they want to get their diplomas. Why not make the people who chreed for them do it?

Edit: At the graduations I've been too they wait for all the chrees to die down before they say the next name.

Updated On: 6/1/07 at 08:01 PM

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 8:04pm

A few years ago at my sister's graduation parents started booing and throwing stuff at the valedictorian during her speech. It wasn't the most exciting speech, but good lord, can you not sit still and listen to someone for 10 minutes?

Now parents are required to attend etiquette classes before they're issued tickets for the ceremony.

[polly2]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 8:37pm

ok that's funny yet sad. i can think of a lot of people who need those though

[Elphaba]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 8:41pm

billy, waiting for the cheers to die down would have made my graduating class of 751 have to sit for a damn day and a half.

The parents were warned beforehand. There are rules for a reason, and that crap wasn't even allowed when I graduated back in the Dark Ages....clapping was.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 8:44pm

If there's one common thought in the mind of every human being involved with the graduation ceremony, it's this:

"I want to get the **** out of here!!!"

Cheering only lengthens what is already a boring and pointless ceremony.

[billygoatgirl300]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 8:57pm

Elphaba-I'm just saying I think its wrong that the students are being punsished. I understand not allowing them to go to the party afterwords but not giving them their diplomas?

Actually the speeches are the longest part of the graudation ceremony at my school and we have a two groups singing and on of the bands playing. I have no idea how long the reading of names will be this year because I have a large class. But it's not 751.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 9:20pm

Legally, can they withhold them?

[polly2]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 9:23pm

I think it's just the ornamental ones like you hang on your wall that they are trying to with hold

[fflagg]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 9:31pm

It's called good behavior. The parents were probably trash who could not understand to shut up.

Stop romanticizing; yeah it is great to get your diploma but if every proud parents screamed for every kid the ceremony would be 5 hours.

Hoot and holler after all the diplomas are handed out.

[billygoatgirl300]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 9:51pm

TheaterDiva- In the article they interviewed someone from the ACLU and they said what the school is doing is legal.

Updated On: 6/1/07 at 09:51 PM

[Liam]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 9:56pm

Last year when my sister graduated from High school A woman was arrested for fliping out when she was not allowed to see her son graduate.She was a little late and although she had a ticket they ran out of seats.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 10:00pm

That's okay.

When I graduated, I flipped off the class and walked from the stage, right off the field. I had a show to do that night.

I hated them all and I haven't looked back since.

[yodamarie78]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 10:09pm

At my sister-in-law's graduation anyone excessively cheering was removed from the ceremony. That seems like a more reasonable way to handle it. It's not the student's fault his or her family doesn't know how to behave in public.

[ljay889]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 10:18pm

I graduate on Monday. The students are families are aloud to cheer. But the vice principle announcing the name will take a break after each name until all the cheers are over. Apparently like 10 years ago a family went nuts when their stuents name was called, and when the next student was called - their family couldn't hear them. So it was a big deal.

[billygoatgirl300]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 10:25pm

I graduate next friday. A few years ago at my brother's grauduation there were some girls who would chreed really loud for their friends when they were called. Good thing we have our graduations where UMASS plays thri basketball games because if it wern't for the sound system we would be able to hear anything

I don't mind when they read all the names. I just hate the amount of speechs there are. Which as I said before take up more time than the reading of names. I

[caitiesus1522]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 10:54pm

Yeah that is really crap. You don't punish the students for people who like them. Make hte loud people do community service, not the students. And not letting them go ot the party was really bad too. THEY didn't do anything!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/2/07 at 12:03am

Edit: At the graduations I've been too they wait for all the chrees to die down before they say the next name.

Something tells me there might be summer school for you between the ceremony and actually getting your hands on your diploma.

[Dancinqueen123]

Posted: 6/2/07 at 12:08am

I graduated last week and parents were told to wait until everyone's name had been called and then they could applaud. Which I think was strange because who wants to wait for another 430 students to be called before cheering for your child?

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 6/2/07 at 2:23pm

This girl sitting a few rows behind my family (including my hard-of-hearing grandmother) screamed non-stop throughout the last 20 minutes. "Yeah [family member]! Yeah [friend]! YEAH!" Long after the people's names were called; she was just being annoying and disruptive the entire section of the audience. She didn't listen to the family members telling her to shut up, or the people around her. I would have said something myself had my grandparents not been there. But I wish the school had administrators throughout the audience to enforce something like this; the b*tch deserved to explain to her friends and family why they couldn't get their diplomas due to her self-serving obnoxiousness.

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 6/2/07 at 2:35pm

Graduation is such an exciting time for parents and some are just too overjoyed, but that's not reason to withhold a student's well earned diploma.