What a be-yotch.
People living in this country are so spoiled that they wake up in the morning just looking for things that “offend” them. They sure do love to whine in America these days.
Tebowing, giving thanks to God Almighty, amazing that a Catholic School should discipline someone that got the message they were teaching since Kindergarten.
At least he didn’t moon the principal.
At least he didn’t moon the principal.
I know who Tebow is but I don’t know what “Tebowing” looks like. Anything like the Macarana?
What a bunch of morons.
I wonder what the ‘punishment’ would have been had he yelled “Allahu Akbar”
Big mistake. He should have kissed a male classmate and put a condom on a vegetable./very heavy sarcasm
On the bright side, he’ll never have to go back again.
kids mother sounds like a weirdo control freak
I take this a bit different than most of you apparently.
Graduation should be solemn and monumental occasion not to be treated with levity which apparently is what this boy did.
Today nothing is treated with seriousness by the youth and they are picking this up for the most part from their elders.
Consider that Monday is Memorial Day. How many of us will be out Monday morning to sunrise services with our young children and teach them to treat the honored heroes of past wars with the respect they are due?
From his own words it is obvious that he was not having a moment of prayer to offer thanks to G-d but he was playing the clown. I am in total agreement with the school and his mother. It is quite obvious that this is not a mature man but a child.
Our society has almost completely lost our cultures foundation stone. We no longer have solemn days of remembrance or mark days of transition such as a graduation once was. So our youth are not learning to respect elders or authority because we do not teach them the importance of these occasions. A graduation should be right of passage but now it is no more that a meaningless reason to throw a party.
If we do not teach our children to respect even an important moment in their own lives how are they ever going to respect the nation or their fellow citizens?
Traditions are important. They are the cement that bind a culture and we are loosing that bond.
Sorry but I think our society has taken “Lightening UP” too far.
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Damn, that’s sad to have an atheist mother.
My first reaction upon reading this was that a student was being punished for kneeling in prayer on the stage ("Tebowing") but it appears that the boy might not have been truly praying at all but mocking the "Tebowing" gesture. If so, perhaps he deserves to be disciplined for his action.
“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.”
SUSPENDED at graduation last December?
Nope, had to be some assembly and he probably knew he wasn’t supposed to do this anyway, but figured, “What are they gonna do, suspend me at graduation?”
Big deal was he/they bowed.
Principal’s facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/john.cavell
I wrote him a note:
You’re making the news. Denying the kid 12 years worth of work for a kneel-prayer?! Come on.
His mother is a teacher att he school.
That explains it.
Union member, atheist, banana condom teacher.
his mother is a real jerk.....
makes ya wonder who the kids are.. His Mom is a teacher? that explains it.