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Diploma Denied To Student Who Bowed, Blew Kiss To Family
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| 6-15-09
Posted on 06/16/2009 12:36:51 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: snarks_when_bored
I just think the kid was happy.
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posted on
06/16/2009 12:59:25 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: rawhide
If he did the Obama-Michelle fist-bump he would have probably gotten an honorary PhD.
To: rawhide
I bet if he came out in pink hot pants waving a rainbow flag, the superintendent would have had no problem with him.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:02:35 PM PDT
by
steveo
To: rawhide
You can “showboat” all you want — you just have to take the consequences for breaking the rules. That would be the manly thing. Mama didn’t raise this kid worth a damn.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:10:00 PM PDT
by
Dionysius
(Jingoism is no vice in these troubled times.)
To: rawhide
Zero tolerance for public school officials with zero brains.
To: TruthConquers
Agreed. I got out a semester early because of sufficient credits and I had no intention of going to the “ceremony”. Never got the piece of paper. I heard they had a streaker there, though :-)
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:13:27 PM PDT
by
Fast Moving Angel
(GOP: Stop listening, start doing -- we need new leaders!)
To: rawhide
Yes he’s probably a horses a$$, but a lot of us were in high school. The school can’t deny him his diploma. The principal is evidently as big an a$$ as the kid!
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:13:36 PM PDT
by
Oldpuppymax
(AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
To: rawhide
Now, his mother wants her son to get what he's worked so hard for. A silk robe, a hangover, and qualifications to work for McDonalds?
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:13:54 PM PDT
by
theDentist
(qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: rawhide
The generation that as young people asked that their EVERY instance of show-boating (drugs, nudity, promiscuity, draft—dodging) be tolerated now cannot tolerate a SINGLE instance of show-boating —blowing a kiss.
When you’re kind to the cruel, the next step is being cruel to the kind.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:16:42 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: rawhide
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:19:10 PM PDT
by
Sir Gawain
("Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect" - Thoreau)
To: snarks_when_bored
Except he didn't use his head. Get the diploma in hand first. At my high school graduation I heard a rumor that our school was going to give us empty diploma covers and give us our diplomas afterward to make sure we behaved at the ceremony. So I opened mine up just after after getting it, held it over my head and pointed to it. Didn’t even look till later to see that my diploma was indeed in the cover. Got massive cheers anyway.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:24:52 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
To: rawhide
Oh, good grief. The kid bowed and blew a kiss to his mom. How terrible.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:26:55 PM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: astounded
Besides, they signed an agreementThe mother acknowledges that and does not believe what her son did was a violation of the agreement. So unless you can produce a copy of the agreement that states what her son did was a violation, then you are the dunce for jumping to conclusions.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:29:29 PM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: Dionysius
Mama didnt raise this kid worth a damn."There was no misbehavior. Showboating is not misbehavior," Mary Denney said.
Apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:32:44 PM PDT
by
frithguild
(Can I drill your head now?)
To: rawhide
I watched the video and all I saw was a kid trying to recognize people who had helped him get there. He was punished for others bad behavior.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:42:39 PM PDT
by
Krodg
To: rawhide
"I'm like, 'Did she not hand him his diploma?' I'm like, 'What's going on?'" Mary Denney said."I'm like, I'm like, I'm like". With the way she speaks, perhaps Mary Denney should take a remedial course in conversational English.
To: Sir Gawain
I would’ve punched her.And then you would've been arrested.
To: Isabel C.
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posted on
06/16/2009 2:05:42 PM PDT
by
Sir Gawain
("Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect" - Thoreau)
To: rawhide
I pulled a stupid showboating stunt during my HS graduation 25 years ago. I never got my diploma. Boo Hoo. Life went on. Somehow I survived without filing a lawsuit or crying to the newspapers.
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posted on
06/16/2009 2:11:18 PM PDT
by
el_chupacabra
(They say it's always calmest before the storm. That's not true. It isn't calm. Stuff happens.)
To: rawhide
Well, I have to say that high school graduations are becoming increasingly undignified. I recently attended one where the audience managed to "withhold applause" throughout the proceedings, and it was much improved over other graduations.
You don't want an applause competition, or American Grad Idol.
I don't know what to say, except that it must be frustrating to principals trying to conduct a meaningful ceremony and not a popularity or "Comedy Central" contest.
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posted on
06/16/2009 3:03:23 PM PDT
by
Mamzelle
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