Posted on 06/17/2009 5:27:44 PM PDT by politicalmerc
STANDISH, Maine -- Justin Denney's family watched as he ascended the Cumberland County Civic Center stage during graduation Friday night to accept his diploma, but the superintendent told him to return to his seat. The Bonny Eagle High School senior's mother said she can't believe her son's taking a bow and blowing a kiss on stage led was grounds for the superintendent to withhold his diploma. Mary Denney wants an apology, and her son wants his diploma, reported WMTW-TV in Portland, Maine. "I'm like, 'Did she not hand him his diploma?' I'm like, 'What's going on?'" Mary Denney said.
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We need to commission a poll: who is the biggest drama queen, the superintendent, the kid, or the mom?
In case you agree with me.
CONTACT INFO FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO PROTEST:
Superintendent Suzanne Lukas:
suzanne_lukas@sad6.k12.me.us
Phone 207-929-9108
Principal Beth Schultz:
beth_schultz@sad6.k12.me.us
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
http://www.sad6.k12.me.us/
District Administration
A student at a graduation we attended did a cartwheel on stage.
Actually, as a veteran of many, many graduation ceremonies, I applaud the principal. At every darn one of these ceremonies people are told to hold their applause or in various other ways avoid insisting on narcissistic displays.
Unless the warnings are backed by action, nitwits like this boob will continue to flout the rules. Whistles, blowing kisses and similar antic prolong the agony for everyone.
Why can’t the little dear just climb the steps, walk decorously, play his part and receive his reward? Why does everyone have to be a celebrity?
I say, give the principal a raise.
Give the kid his stupid diploma in a month or two, after the lesson has had time to sink in. He obviously hasn’t yet learned his lesson, so he doesn’t deserve his diploma—yet.
My bad. Give the superintendent a raise, not the principal.
Yeah, rules are so much more important than the fact that apparently this kid EARNED HIS DIPLOMA.
But what is that next to showing off a little bit. Fry him.
It would strengthen her position if she spoke English instead of latter-day pidgin argot.
Stood next to a man in a checkout line and specialty/decorative toothbrushes were sitting on the counter. He picked one up; turned package around and then asked; since apparently he could not find the 'seal'; if these were approved by the American Dental Association. . .
Knew immediately this man was a pathetic; mind-numbed - if not brain dead - Liberal. He then added; that if they were not; they should not be allowed to be sold. Yes; folks, they cannot but help, give themselves away.
I vote for mom!
Same old crap, you are told what the rules are, you break them , then cry “unfair”.
Blowing a kiss is indeed pretty minor, but I have been to a 2000+ graduation, if every kid did something funny, the whole thing would degrade into non-sense. i was proud of all the hard work my son put in, and he came out still a semi-conservative! Hope he can hold on to it thru college too.
. . .and I am sure the audience laughed and applauded. Graduations are great; but even better; when there is some 'relief'.
State run media.
State run education system.
Coming soon - State run medicine.
I never thought, in a million years, I would say this but...
I wish McCain had won. :^(
Did you see what the kid did? It really wasn’t over the top.
I’m like...Mom!!! Like what the hell you upset about? Like, just chill....Like you and he agreed not to make a statement...Like, thats the way it is...
That superintendent sounds pretty old school, to say the least.
I guess if your boss didn’t like the car you drove to work, he should withhold your paycheck until you get a “greener” one.
Cripes. Get over it.
I never attended ceremonies. At high school I told them that I have more important things to do and left for home. At university - I don't even remember, I picked up the diploma at secretary's office a couple of months later. Why to bother attending useless, noisy performances that contribute nothing to your education?
Because it’s narcissistic, that’s why. You don’t like the Narcissist in Chief, do you? If he earned his diploma, let him walk the last ten paces with dignity, like everyone else. Why does he have to be so precious, so special, so individualistic? Obviously the rest of the class didn’t need to focus all attention on themselves, since he’s the only one who got zotted. If everyone did what he did, the ceremony becomes a joke.
Whatever became of public ceremony where everyone plays his part well? Why does everyone have to have his little 5 seconds of special attention?
Rules are there to make life decent for everyone. People who think they are above the rules bring trouble for everyone.
What’s really different about this jerk standing on stage and saying, in effect, “I, I, Me, Me, Look at Me Ma, look at Me everyone ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME”
and Barack Hussein Obama filling his speeches with I, Me, My, Mine constantly? Both are narcissists.
How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?
An Age of Narcissistic Sociopaths has been pawned IMO.
Because it's a monumentous event in a young person's life, graduating High School, eager to launch into the real world, and simply because he *can* as an American (remember "Liberty"?) ... whatever ... why does it have to be a stiff-shirt affair according to you?
And so we’re going to sit around arguing over which particular narcissistic act is under the top and which over the top?
A public ceremony is for the whole. When individuals start trying to make the ceremony about ME ME ME ME ME ME, they take advantage of their classmates who don’t flaunt themselves. If everybody flaunts herself, we have chaos. This kid’s stunt only works if he can assume that enough of the rest of the class will follow the rules.
I hate that kind of self-centered narcissism. And hating it is a conservative, traditional way of looking at life. How do you think we got into the mess we are in except by people insisting on being left alone to do their narcissistic little numbers when and wherever they please.
The kid will get his diploma eventually, I’m sure. A little tough love by delaying it to drive home the point is the best thing that could happen to him. Obviously his mother is a narcissist herself and she’s raised a jerk.
But go ahead, weep tears of sorrow for the poor little dear’s hurt feelings. That’s what he really needs, a million Mommies out there crying on his behalf. That’ll help him man up real fast.
Did the kids w/the beach balls get their diploma or was this guy the scapegoat? His actions were not mischievous, IMO.
Touche! Good one, PD :)
Well mom what about this?
“No arrests were made," Cumberland County Sheriff's Department Deputy Chief Kevin Joyce said. "The individual that was escorted off the stage was asked to leave the civic center. He was to the point where the deputy was starting to get to the point where he wanted to arrest the individual, but gave him several opportunities to settle down. Eventually, he took off his cap and gown and threw it at the deputy and walked out the civic center."
He had to be escorted off the stage. The superintendent asked him to sit down but he had to have a deputy escort him off the stage and had to be shown out of the building.
There has to be some history here, if not with this student in particular, with graduation ceremonies at this high school.
I will have to stand with the superintendent on this one. Discipline and decorum at high schools have been pretty low at high schools for several decades. It is long past time that kids learn that childish behavior has its place and time. Graduation ceremonies are not the place or the time.
The kid should get his diploma unceremoniously in the mail.
Next year the school should have a mandatory meeting with graduating seniors where it is explained that no demonstrations by students or parents will be tolerated. The ceremony will be as rehearsed or the offender will be escorted out of the hall and not readmitted.
Really, really excellent outrage amplification spin. You should get a shill award for your efforts, or at least a bonus from your employer. Besides your abusive conceptual rape of the outrageously disrespectful integrity rape of this student, I especially note your steady use of the quoted disgusted and insulting, demeaning terms, rising at the end of your trashtalk to a sneering spit. Really excellent use of the technique - I hope other shills are noting this.
Congratulations - amongst the lowest of the low, you're the one who accepts money to be the garbage they step on.
Because the ceremony does not belong to him alone. It belongs to everyone taking part in it.
If you were getting married and one of the bridesmaids decided she didn’t have to follow the script but could pull this or that stunt so the attention would be on her, would it be “stiff-shirt” to say that she was self-centered?
Ceremonies have a real function in culture. Cultures that have no formal ceremonies in which the individual subordinates himself to the society’s rituals are cultures that will fall apart.
We used to have countless rites of passage in which we tested people for their loyalty, their willingess to play their role as assigned.
But toss out a negative label (stuffed shirt) and you’ve solved it. I wouldn’t care if the script for a graduation included face-painting and bubble-blowing as long as the whole group agreed in advance on what the procedures would be and everyone played their agreed-upon roles. MY OBJECTION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH STUFFED SHIRTS. It’s about being a member of the group and playing one’s agreed-upon role. He knew the rules, why does he have to be so preciously stand-out? What would be wrong with doing what he was asked to do?
Uh, do you have anything substantive to say or do you just shout sh’t?
I know, it’s narcissistic, but they outgrow it! A little narcissism isn’t so bad, as long as it’s steered away from, but taking his diploma is more like hitting a fly with a hammer.
Hahahahahaa, yeah his timing was off a bit. Could ya imagine the wild scene that would follow if he blew the kiss *after* getting the sheepskin? /laugh
Principal (as the kid runs away): HEY, YOU JUST BROKE THE RULES ... NOW GIVE THAT DIPLOMA BACK! I DEMAND IT!
Kid: Nyahh Nyann NYAAA ...
(Security convenes on the kid and tackles him, ripping the diploma from his hands)
Very good example of pure relativism.
Fifty years ago do you think anyone anywhere would have thought of dressing up like a penis for his graduation? But that’s your “standard” against which you then evaluate kiss-blowing.
It’s people like you who enable the penis-costumers because you have no principle to operate from, just “well, it could be worse,” and “well, it’s not as bad as X.”
So my kid steals a CD and I tell the store security guard, look, that other guy in last night’s newspaper stole a motorcycle from the Harley store. My kid did nothing wrong because someone else did something worse.
Or your wife commits adultery and tells you, well, just be glad I didn’t do it with your brother. Leave me alone you stuffed shirt?
All of his "behaviors" were because he had just had his integrity publically raped in the name of good behavior. The entire incident was an atrocity, the school administrators in this country are tinpot gods who regularly violate student integrity at will. Calling in a cop was further insult, and he was right to throw off his cap and gown (like hell he threw it at the cop, they were looking for a reason to arrest him and that would have done it).
Blowing a kiss to your mom and taking a bow when you get your high school diploma is disturbing the ceremony? Get a life, and stuff your worship of petty rules where the sun don't shine. This was rank, obvious, insulting and highly disrupting tyranny by the administrator - period.
And your support of it is disgusting.
The jerk is a youngster and he blew a kiss. That doesn’t make him mentally ill with Narcissistic Personality Disorder or like Clinton or Obama.
I’m going to bow out of this, I don’t want to argue with you, but wish you would reconsider your rigid position on this. Some battles just aren’t worth the trouble. This is relatively harmless and we need to pick our battles.
Utterly irrelevant pseudo-analogy. Did you earn your diploma?
I believe that part of the article is talking about another kid. Not the one in question.
Excellent use of the same tactic you're accusing me of, in order not to acknowledge the substantiveness of what I said.
You're really good. I'll bet you get two, even three bucks an hour.
Are you the superintendent in question?
There has to be some history here, if not with this student in particular, with graduation ceremonies at this high school.
I will have to stand with the superintendent on this one. Discipline and decorum at high schools have been pretty low at high schools for several decades. It is long past time that kids learn that childish behavior has its place and time. Graduation ceremonies are not the place or the time.
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Agreed.
They are talking about a different kid there - not the ‘no diploma kid’.
Whatever became of public ceremony where everyone plays his part well? Why does everyone have to have his little 5 seconds of special attention?
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You make some good points.
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