a few of us here in Maine are OUTRAGED..At friday Nights graduation at Bonny Eagle, a student was denied his diploma FOR BLOWING HIS MOTHER A KISS..can you believe that crap? If that was my child, not another diploma would have been handed out that night, instead they would have to have the cops called in cause I would have def. caused an ugly scene, probably by yanking that superintendant off the stage and well you can figure out the rest..i promise ya that..
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no diploma for this kid

Get the feeling that the 'academics' are taking themselves far too seriously.

I think this is silly. Are they really so serious? I will get a diploma at the school in this year, too. And I also feel many emotions in anticipation of this event. It is wrong to punish somebody if he can not cope with his feelings.

congratulations Alexa and if you want to blow your mother a kiss I say DO IT!!

Which end did he blow the kiss with?? I know my wife hates it when I blow her a kiss, she says it make her eye water!!

Thank you

well when I read this ..I thouight we are not alone we here in Holt Michigan also have very prudy school Administration because the kids at holt were also told at a meeting that they could not act out in anyway ..due to some kids making small pranks or having text on the tops of thier hats at the ceremony ....things kids do out of excitment ..no one was ever hurt that I know of in Holt at the ceremony lol but maybe eleswhere .

I do not want to offend teachers or other school staff ..I will just say it takes a special person to run a day care and school is a very big day care center ...kids are kids ...stop making them act like little programed adults . I have ran into my share of staff over the years and there are some outstanding teachers who love these kids ...and teach these kids well. but the few that are out there that are not in this job for the kids thats where the problem starts ....if you dont want to be a mom dont have childeren it just will not work .

Kay ...I am with you on this hun .. let them not give my daughter her right she has earned to walk and I would have got up as well and got on that stage .
Do they really need to ask "did administration over react " lol clearly they did . and in the end of all this drama I feel a few people should get in line at the unemployment office .

Thats my ......20 cents worth .

OMFG!!!! can they be more pompus. that makes me sick. I am just glad my lil sister wasn't treated like that at her graduation a few years ago. hers was kinda fun. I saw this school says they has an issue with silly string and beach balls a few years ago. lol at my sisters graduation everyone was handed a can of silly string with their diploma. right after they threw their hats they went crazy spraying each other.


denied his diploma for blowing mommy a kiss?! give me a break.

here the controversy continues

graduation

From a UK perspective, I find the whole US highschool graduation ceremony thing a bit odd, to be honest. Here we reserve full-blown mortar-board/gown type ceremonies for degree-level graduation. We don't see completion of school at 18 as such a big deal.

It seems to me that where its so overblown, the mixture of an attempt at such formality mixed with high-spirited 18yr olds is a recipe for some degree of acting out. If the school wants to suppress it, they should have instilled more self-discipline at an earlier stage (I'm criticising the school here, rather than the kids); or alternatively should relax and not be so uptight.


Dave

There's no arguing that as described, this sounds outrageous, but with Fox News being apparently the major source for info here, I can't help but feel the tale is being spun rather ferociously. We haven't heard both sides of the story. For all we know, blowing a kiss was only the last act in a sustained 15-minute cavalcade of monkeyshines. We don't have all the facts, is all I'm saying.

Dave, I'm amused by your comments. High-school graduations have a long history here, but when I was a wee lad, one graduated with ceremony from high school, and received subsequent degrees in further ceremonies, but that was it. Last Friday, I attended two graduations, both of which included a roll call of students filing past to collect certificates. One was for my 5th-grader -- 11 years old -- who is leaving primary school for middle school, and one for my five year old, who is through with preschool and will begin Kindergarten in the fall.

I've grumped a lot recently about this -- it seems crazy to me -- but your complaining about high-school graduations trumps me, in spades. You old curmudgeon.

the kid in question had some kind of academic cord or something around his neck when his name was called he pulled his cord out to be visible, bowed and blew a kiss to his mother, (if that was me i would have been sitting there with tears rolling down my cheeks) My son thought he was 'too cool' to attend graduation, so I never got to go. He did graduate though. and I do have his graduation photo ( I had to really beg for that) but a few kids did have beach balls (those monstrous lil brats).
I see there was a contract signed for no outrageous behaviour, I can accept that, but blowing your mother a kiss, showing your academic achievement cord is not outrageous behaviour, they are calling for her resignation, I dont foresee her being around for much longer.

Also this school is in my town and I know a few of these kids, they are good kids, thrilled to be moving on to their next phase of life, I say bounce all the darn beach balls ya want.the kid knows someone with a tshirt shop and the guy is donating him all the tshirts he needs to pass out in support of him, and calling for her resignation..

I am so glad I am done with school days, things are getting crazy

oh and not for nothing, but if I were a teacher, I would bring my own darn beachball, just as happy to put an end to yet another year

I was thrown out of school when I was 15. But like Dave said, we do find the graduation ceremony slightly bizzare! Looking back at some of the teachers I had, miserable sadistic b******s! I'm not surprised that one teacher would want to ruin a kids day!