Posted on 06/01/2007 12:03:25 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
maybe these schools should pay back the feds for all the money spent to educate students that passed only to get left behind due to others actions.
just a thought.
Power is like, so awesome.
>>American Civil Liberties Union spokesman Edward Yohnka said Galesburg’s policy raises no red flags as long as it is enforced equitably. “It’s probably well within the school’s ability to control the decorum at an event like this,” he said.<<
The shouters should have yelled pro al-Qaeda slogans, that way the ACLU would’ve been on the spot filing suits on their behalf.
Apart from the idiocy of punishing someone for someone else’s actions, I honestly had no idea where my H.S. diploma was within a month after I got it. Just another piece of paper.
The education system is an embarrassment.
How about if my friends and I cheer for students we don’t like?
I’m surprised the ACLU guy said that he thought their policy was ok here. I thought the ACLU generally is in favor of anarchy and free expression of any type. I’m very surprised that an ACLU person would be concerned about the decorum of a graduation ceremony. I’m surprised that an ACLU person would not immediately jump to conclusions about the race of the people involved and charge discrimination.
School officials in Galesburg, a working-class town of 34,000 that is still reeling from the 2004 shutdown of a 1,600-employee refrigerator factory, said the get-tough policy followed a 2005 commencement where hoots, hollers and even air horns drowned out much of the ceremony and nearly touched off fights in the audience when the unruly were asked to quiet down.
“Lots of parents complained that they could not hear their own child’s name called,” said Joel Estes, Galesburg’s assistant superintendent. “And I think that led us to saying we have to do something about this to restore some dignity and honor to the ceremony so that everyone can appreciate it and enjoy it.”
In Indianapolis, public school officials this year started kicking out parents and relatives who cheer. At one school, the superintendent interrupted last month’s graduation to order police to remove a woman from the gymnasium.
“It’s an important, solemn occasion. There’s plenty of time for celebration before and after,” said Clarke Campbell, president of the Indianapolis school board.
Playing the race card. Poor victims.
...a very costly embarrassment with profound power.
Public schools are about creating large groups of easily controlled people. This is just one little hoop they hope to make these kids jump through. Smells like a lawsuit.
That diploma would just get stuck in a box somewhere inside a few months anyway.
Graduations have changed a bit since mine.
“Look Bill, those are our planes now...”
It’s all about decorum, yaknow, a few folks whooped it up a bit too much per some, others couldn’t hear their kids names and hence the more rigid approach.
It could just be a crappy PA system too... glad I don’t have any kids in schools... and never did. ;-)
Crass displays have no place at graduations and other solemn events. And, unfortunately, they're becoming more common.
The essence of modern “liberalism” is that the innocent MUST be punished (or at least pay for) the behaviors of others.
I understand how disruptive the audience can be. When I went to my niece’s graduation at a Catholic school I didnt hear her name called because someone behind me had one of those air horn cans. In the gym, with an air horn, it was loud and obnoxious. But to withhold a diploma isn’t right either. She earned her grades and the diploma fair and square. Seems like there has to be a balance and a way to be fair to conduct cermonies. But it seems like people nowadays don’t understand how to be formal and proper no matter where they are. Cheering is appropriate at a football game, not at a graduation.
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