Posted on 06/16/2009 6:26:58 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
For teens, there is no greater joy than graduating high school. Shaking off the shackles of education and claiming that hard-fought diploma is truly an epic day. Unfortunately, for several students at Bonny Eagle High School in Maine, their natural exuberance has led to some surprisingly serious problems.
On Friday night, when the senior class was waiting to graduate, excitement began to grow. Students bounced a large inflatable rubber duck. The noise level rose. And then came "the kiss." When called, one student walked on stage to receive his diploma and blew a kiss to his family. The school administrator, clearly not the sentimental sort, sent the student back to his seat ... sans diploma.
The seemingly harsh punishment has sent the Web all aflutter. Searches on "student denied diploma" and "bonny eagle high school" are both through the roof. Additionally, blogs and news papers are chiming in with opinions on whether or not the administration overreacted. The student's mother has given interviews and is quite upset at her son's treatment. According to an article from Fox News the outraged mother said, "A bow, a kiss to your mom is not misbehavior."
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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I would like to see where it says in the rules that blowing a kiss to mom is grounds for denying a diploma.
Bonny Eagle High School
700 Saco Road
Standish, ME 04084
207 - 929 - 3840
Principal, Beth Schultz
bschultz@sad6.k12.me.us
Assistant Principal,
Lori Napolitano
lnapolitano@sad6.k12.me.us
Assistant Principal,
Kevin Harrington
kharrington@sad6.k12.me.us
Assistant Principal/
Activities Director,
Mike LeGage
mlegage@sad6.k12.me.us
Central Office
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 38, Bar Mills, ME 04004
Address: 100 Main Street Buxton, Maine 04093 929-3831
642-2480
Superintendent of Schools Suzanne Lukas,
suzanne_lukas@sad6.k12.me.us 929-9108
Assistant Superintendent of Schools Carol Weeks,
carol_weeks@sad6.k12.me.us 929-9101
Assistant Superintendent of Finance and Operations Rick Matthews,
rick_matthews@sad6.k12.me.us 929-9146
all numbers are 207 area code.
Give em a piece of your mind.. I know I’m going to!
....finally somebody with the honesty to tell it like it is....and guess what....the riff raff that interrupts the most are the ones headed for a job flipping burgers...they do their best to turn graduations into farces..they do the same thing at their weddings too.....tune into “America’s Trashiest Weddings” on TV to see them in action....more and more schools in our area have adopted a “zero tolerence” policy at graduation ceremonies....and I’m glad.
Because the kid has already graduated, the diploma is his and not the school's.
It is his property and his right to get it.
For instance, when I graduated from UNC, I did not attend the graduation ceremony. They mailed my diploma to me because it was mine.
He has a case.
I think that instead of caps and gowns, students should get their diplomas wearing black and white striped jumpsuits. It would be far more appropriate.
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Sitting here laughing and laughing! :-)
I wondered what happened to Dolores Umbridge after she left Hogwarts....
PLUS, he has graduated. The diploma certifies he's graduated. If she doesn't get the kid the diploma post-haste she might be talking to attorneys....
Agreed. At my daughters HS graduation 3 years ago on the football field, the people standing at the back had staggeringly boorish and obnoxious behavior. This year, for my son’s graduation, we got there very early to grab seats in the front row so we didn’t have to be right in from of all the noise and air horns. I hate to generalize, but the people standing were all minorities.
...zero tolerence means zero tolerance....a concept quibblers like you will never understand.
This rural Maine school advertises formally that it has a Gay-Straight Alliance as one of its clubs (list is on second page of the PDF). I wonder what kind of special awards are given at the graduation ceremony for participation in this club? No doubt that club plays some role in the graduation and the principal is fine with that.` http://www.sad6.k12.me.us/behs/guidance/01D54958-000F51DF.1/Profile%202008-2009.pdf
He PROBABLY did graduate! He probably just did not get his HS diploma at that CEREMONY.
He blew a kiss to his mother. Stone him!!!! Stone the infidel!!!!
I fixed it for you. Zero tolerance is stupidity codified.
I would like to see what was in the code of conduct that the student signed prior to the graduation ceremony. In several articles on this subject that I have now read, almost all of them mention the fact that the student (and family attending the graduation) were required to sign a code of conduct, but none of the “reporters” deemed the contents of the signed code of conduct to be important enough to include in the story. Kind of makes me wonder if those minor little details might detract from the outrage towards the school that the reporters/editors want to convey.
and now given benefits!
Rural Maine? Isn;t that the end of the road? The next stop would be rural tundra.
So?....If this gay stuff is happening in rural Maine, there is no where else to go, folks.
Solution:
Get your kids out of our godless, Marxist infested, perverted government schools.
Work to padlock every government K-12 school in the nation. It is impossible to reform socialism, and government schools were a socialist scheme from the beginning.
That's right in the U.S. Constitution, isn't it?
| 1. | a strict disciplinarian, esp. a military one. |
| 2. | someone who stubbornly adheres to methods or rules. |
Two words... moo-rons.
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