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Posted on 05/22/2012 5:25:00 PM PDT by GSWarrior
A high school senior’s diploma was withheld after he Tebowed on stage during his graduation ceremony last weekend.
17-year-old Chuck Shriner played football for Fort Myers Catholic school and thought Tebowing after crossing the stage would make his ceremony “fun” and “memorable.” While his move elicited plenty of laughs, it didn’t go over well with the school’s administration. Shriner’s diploma was withheld at the behest of his mother, who is also a teacher at the school.
“They said what I did would give underclassmen inspiration to do something else, that it might lead to something else,” Shriner said about the administration’s reaction, according to the Naples Daily News. “So they were trying to set an example.”
Shriner actually had to clean the school’s gym as punishment, and his diploma was turned over to his mother who held it to discipline her son. Chuck unsurprisingly had no regrets.
“Moment in my life I’ll never forget, getting my diploma taken away for doing the Tebow on stage in front of (Principal John) Cavell. So worth it,” Shriner posted on his Facebook page.
Shriner shouldn’t be surprised about his punishment. Had he followed the news, he would have learned that a few students were suspended for Tebowing last December.
“Tastefully display a sense of humor” by mocking the act of prayer?
Your definition of tasteful is quite different from mine.
Ah Ha!! - so you are on the side of defending this kid’s mockery. You are right that the media was fishing for a reaction...but they recognize the kid was mocking, not emulating, Tebow.
They applaud the kid for, at a Catholic school no less, making light of Tebow’s devotion. This has the triple bonus of mocking Tebow, bashing the Catholic sense of decorum and ridiculing parental discipline.
Ask yourself, “Who comes out the hero here?” (it wasn’t Mom of the principal) and you will get your answer as to what the media was promoting.
You are so far off beam it is breathtaking. I sense a great deal of transference here. Your casual tossing about of terms like “abuser” and “brutal” diminishes the true abuse and brutality that exist. “Brutal” for making him clean the gym for his mockery???? Either you are “discovering” motives and actions that were not reported, or you have no clue about abuse and brutality.
There is nothing here to justify a charge of abuse. He behaveed inappropriately (name one 17 year old that doesn’t at some time or another) and Mom called him on it - as moms are supposed to do.
Another substantive response.
Thank you (bowing)
Do you ever have anythingg of substance or intelligence to say? Or do you only resort to mockery when your stated position has been obliterated\?
Giles, dear, You convinced me of your view many posts ago. I’m just teasing you to keep from arguing about your abrasive tone.
No argument about my tone. I have little tolerance for sophistry and incomplete or illogical arguments - and your first to me riled that impulse. I enjoy honest debate, and abhor what generally passes as debate in popular culture today.
Please note, my abrasive tone is directed at your argument, not your person.
I have no argument. I was just teasing you to lighten things up. HOWEVER. One of your many posts did sway my opinion to see your view and agree with you. So maybe that’s what it took.
Not at all - it is just funny. My sons, when they first saw the Tebow thing, went “Hey, he’s...”
The Junior-level masonic ritual includes if he a prayer ritual. Tebow is performing it.
I have no idea if he was ever in DeMolay. But there is no prohibition against praying in public, even if he was.
I once hit my knees, kissed the ground, and said “Thank you God” out loud and in public, when my flight landed after a tour of duty overseas.
Yes, I knew it would garner a few laughs from some of my peers and some strangers, and I enjoyed them, but I was not making a mockery of “the act of prayer”.
Our “definition of tasteful” very obviously differs.
Oh well!
God will judge us all, in the end. I bet he likes me better!
(That's a joke GilesB)
This is a Catholic School and Catholic Schools are known for their strict rules and dicipline. That's why many parent send their kids to Catholic School. We want our kids to understand the importance of the rule of law in a civilized society and the consequences for breaking those rules. We want our kids to learn in a safe enviroment without the disruptive influences and distractions of a few attention whores.
I'm willing to bet that he was denied the diploma not because he Tebowed, rather, he failed to follow the graduation protocal. If the school had let him get away with this, then next year another attention whore will distrupt some school event in the hopes of topping this guy, and the cycle will contine and expand.
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