Blow a kiss to your mom while getting diploma = you dont graduate HS

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DaRizzle said:
did they? Sounds like you are just making that up
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But the administrators feel they were just enforcing the rules that students agreed to. At a meeting following the debacle, school superintendent Suzanne Lukas said that "if a student doesn't adhere to the expectations, then the consequences are clearly spelled out."
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'Nuff said.
 
DaRizzle said:
lol...you serious? you dont have access to the memo

please stop making stuff up
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What did I make up? What memo? It's simple, really.

"Students agree to abide by rules" + "Student violates rules" = "Student punished for violating rule."
 
BlazerWookee said:
What did I make up? What memo? It's simple, really.

"Students agree to abide by rules" + "Student violates rules" = "Student punished for violating rule."
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Um...then reread my post # 27...you think any of those terms apply to blowing a kiss to your mom? If they wanted to be that anal, while stupid, they should have spelled it out better. I highly doubt they went specific enough that kids knew they werent allowed to do something like this.

A HS graduation is a time of rejoice and the way he did it seems very respectable
 
She (mom) said she and Justin both signed a code of conduct regarding the graduation when she picked up graduation tickets on Friday, but she doesn't think he violated it.

"There was no misbehavior. Showboating is not misbehavior," Mary Denney said. "A bow, a kiss to your mom is not misbehavior. There was no need of my son not getting his diploma."

Before the school began handing out diplomas, some students pulled out beach balls. One student was forced to sit away from his classmates with staff while police escorted another student behind the stage.
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http://www.wmtw.com/education/19763059/detail.html

So "misbehavior" evidently is the word they used in the student conduct code.

Misbehavior = blowing kiss to mom and bowing= :crazy:
 
Okay, there is a huge difference between a kid getting punished for breaking a "rule"--a fucking retarded one at that--and a kid not getting his diploma because he blew a kiss to his family. Surely it would of been better to give him a day of summer school. Actually, even that is too harsh.

I can't believe you guys are supporting this over-reaction. Yes, the student should of been punished for breaking a rule that he previously agreed to, but taking away his well-earned diploma that he has worked towards for his whole life? Ridiculous.
 
Main Event said:
Okay, there is a huge difference between a kid getting punished for breaking a "rule"--a fucking retarded one at that--and a kid not getting his diploma because he blew a kiss to his family. Surely it would of been better to give him a day of summer school. Actually, even that is too harsh.

I can't believe you guys are supporting this over-reaction. Yes, the student should of been punished for breaking a rule that he previously agreed to, but taking away his well-earned diploma that he has worked towards for his whole life? Ridiculous.
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IMO he didnt break ANY rule if all he did was blow a kiss, bow, and wave to friends and family. From reading several articles Im getting the sense that the word "misbehavior" was the term used in the code of conduct.

You have to REALLY stretch to call any of those things misbehavior...and if you did you would be wrong
 
Well, like you said before, we can't see what rules the students agreed to. If it says something along the lines of, "No interacting with the audience" then he broke a rule. But how the fuck does that take away his diploma? Somebody needs the can.
 
Main Event said:
Well, like you said before, we can't see what rules the students agreed to. If it says something along the lines of, "No interacting with the audience" then he broke a rule. But how the fuck does that take away his diploma? Somebody needs the can.
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I hoping one of the kids from that school will make that memo public sooner than later
 
Let us all be completely strict about rules then. You can kill people. It is against the law or "rules" but you CAN do it.

So, the student should hunt that woman down and torture her to within an inch of her life. I won't say kill as she doesn't deserve it. However, per the "rules" the student should be arrested and tried for allegedly torturing the woman. Now, he is innocent until proven guilty so he didn't do anything wrong...yet.

Now, when he goes to trial, hopefully people like me will be on the jury. It is in the "rules" that the jury has to follow the judges instructions and try and reach a verdict. If his lawyer claimed insanity for the student as he had been denied his diploma, I would think many people might be inclined to let him go free. That would be alright according to the "rules" that some people want to follow so closely.

The fact that the police were thinking about arresting some stupid kids at their graduation shows how fucked up this society has become.
 
Main Event said:
Okay, there is a huge difference between a kid getting punished for breaking a "rule"--a fucking retarded one at that--and a kid not getting his diploma because he blew a kiss to his family. Surely it would of been better to give him a day of summer school. Actually, even that is too harsh.

I can't believe you guys are supporting this over-reaction. Yes, the student should of been punished for breaking a rule that he previously agreed to, but taking away his well-earned diploma that he has worked towards for his whole life? Ridiculous.
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He was sent back to his seat sans diploma, it doesn't say anything about him being sent home sans diploma.
 
Mary Denney said she is planning a graduation party for her son in two weeks, which, by then, she said she hopes she will have a photograph of her son with his diploma.
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from article linked in post 35

bolded part= as in he doesnt have his diploma yet
 
I don't see how anyone can think that this rule should have been enforced, even if it was there.

We had similar rules for our graduation (although I'm sure blowing kisses, bowing, etc. were fine). One of the students went and hugged all the people on stage (principal, subschool principal, counselors, etc.). Like big joke hugs (picked up the one female counselor, lol). That student was warned before hand not to do anything, warned at the rehearsal. He still got his diploma.

No need to try to ruin anyone's day. Just let the kids have fun.
 
Clearly the student will, eventually, get his diploma. I don't think that anyone is arguing that he does not deserve it nor that he has not earned it.

The question is whether he deserved to have it given to him as part of that ceremony. The ceremony is a privilege, not a right, and as such rules agreed to should be followed.

Even the mom admits that the kid was showboating. The more I read about this, the less of an issue I have with what happened.

Ed O.
 
barfo said:
Personally, I think the death penalty is called for here. For the superintendent, for the kids, for the entire town.

barfo
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My intel says Bonny Eagle High School has weapons of mass destruction and possibly thermite or nano-thermite (if it exists).

Should this thread be merged? :ohno:
 
Spud147 said:
My intel says Bonny Eagle High School has weapons of mass destruction and possibly thermite or nano-thermite (if it exists).

Should this thread be merged? :ohno:
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nano-thermite causes all threads to be merged at the "speed of gravity". You don't want to go there.

barfo
 
This rule was teh ghey. The school administrators are clearly on a fucking power trip. fucking losers.
 
Ed O said:
The parents paid for it. Actually, the COMMUNITY paid for it.

All the kids had to do was show up.

I'm all for the students enjoying it and savoring it, but I fail to see the sense of entitlement for them that so many of you seem so quick to ascribe.

Ed O.
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Why should anybody be concerned, about anything that somebody else does, ever, as long as they are not violating somebody else's rights, or breaking the law, or doing damage to a company they are working for? Those are the only situations where such judgements should be made, but otherwise, you live your life, I live mine, and don't tell me how to live mine.
 
LOL at this thread. A guy broke the rules. He didn't get to take home his diploma.

If you don't fully stop at a sign before turning right, you can be pulled over.

You can (and I have) received a ticket for going 63 in a 60.

Were the authorities being pricks when doing this? Sure. Were they totally within their rights to do so? Yes.

If your friend gave hugs and picked up counselors and got off free---good for him. If someone wanted to not give him his diploma, it would've been within their rights as well.

Why his mom thinks showboating is was ok when she and her son signed a conduct agreement is beyond me.

Q: Why is following the rules a military school thing only? A: It isn't--it's a societal contract. And if this kid and his mom got their feelings hurt because of it? Uh, no sympathy from me.
 
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