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Ohio school withholds diploma because of cheering
Topic Started: June 6, 2012, 11:18 am (1,317 Views)
M. Hawbaker
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CINCINNATI — A suburban Cincinnati high school is withholding a graduate's diploma and requiring community service as punishment for what it describes as overly boisterous cheering by his family during his graduation ceremony.

Mount Healthy City Schools Superintendent Lori Handler tells WCPO-TV families agree to avoid ceremony disruptions. She says they are unfair to others who want to hear their students' names called and then cheered.

She says the extended cheering for football player Anthony Cornist disrupted the May 24 ceremony.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-odd/20120606/US.ODD.Cheers.No.Diploma/
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eaglex

I think it was unfair and childish to withhold the diploma just because his family was cheering. Don't they know that cheering is a point for approvavl by th family because they were proud of him.
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jrbaker

What sense does it make to withhold the diploma from the *student*, when his *family* was cheering?
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barb43
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Wish Martha Stewart was My Sister!
They're punishing the wrong person. This is crazy.

If they'd had security run up & escort the family off the premises, that might have made some sense . . . But not what they're doing.
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LadySharon
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Really? can't they WAIT a few seconds/a minute while the cheering died down before calling the next name? The student should get his diploma, shake hands and go sit down at which point the cheering should stop if it hasn't already.

Morons. This is the person's life we are talking about here.

This is like punishing the whole class because one person messed up. (always hated that.)
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IamHis
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If the student fulfilled all the requirements to receive his diploma,
he gets it. They could have a lawsuit on their hands for doing this.
Also, ok, the parents cheered loudly, possibly overcoming the next
name to be called. Parents who love their kids and are proud of
their accomplishments get excited, it's only human. As another person
posted, the school could have just waited a minute to announce the
next name. What a bunch of nonsense. Some people don't have the
sense God gave geese.
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Rainbo
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Withholding the diploma AND making the poor kid do community service. Talk about overkill. Not only that they're punishing the graduate for something his family members did.

Do they also identify cliques in the school and if the clique does something against school rules grab the one member of the clique that didn't participate and punish that person?
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raml
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I read about a woman who was asked to leave because she cheered for her child during graduation but I agreed with the school who had security asking her to leave and when she refused she was actually arrested which she brought on herself. I really don't agree with punishing the graduate because his family made a mistake and I would certainly sue the school if I was him. He didn't do anything wrong and the school is totally wrong about this case. I understand why you can't cheer for each student since they have rather large graduation classes these days and it would take forever to get through all of them with cheering time included that was the way it was at my childrens graduation and it was not a problem at all to wait. When I graduated I was going to a private school and the class was small but the cheering was still at the end of the ceremony and no one thought it was wrong nor do I a graduation ceremony is not a sporting event with cheering for every good play.
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Blackjack

When my son graduated from high school 4 years ago there was a no cheering rule in effect, or else. While you and I think it's unfair or not right it was posted in advance of the ceremony that those doing so would be kicked out. I can assure you, nobody cheered.
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cricket55
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Just dumb period. The student should have gotten is diploma.
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