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While we've all heard sad tales of high school students not being allowed to graduate at the last moment because of senior pranks gone wrong, a student losing his diploma for blowing a kiss to his mother as he walked the commencement stage has to be a first.
Well, this makes no sense until you realize that the point of schools is not to educate anymore, but rather to implement social control. Scratch and educator, and you'll find an autocrat more interested in rules than enlightenment.
Yes, some students want to have fun at graduation, but they did sign a behavior contract. Had they not, then that would have been a different story. I've had it pointed out to me that some students consider it a serious ceremony, and why should they be subject to tomfoolery?
Respect. Simple. He should be given his diploma and be done with it - lesson learned.
This is an outrage. The school should not be able to refuse a diploma to someone that has completed all the graduation requirements. Even if they didn't want to give him his diploma at the graduation, they should at least send it to him in the mail. You can take the graduation ceremony away from a student, but you can't take away the diploma itself. I find this funny because at my graduation, a mom came up to the stage to give her son his diploma and gave him a hug after (and the principal approved). Yet at this graduation, a student is refused his diploma for something similar.
This is an outrage. The school should not be able to refuse a diploma to someone that has completed all the graduation requirements. Even if they didn't want to give him his diploma at the graduation, they should at least send it to him in the mail. You can take the graduation ceremony away from a student, but you can't take away the diploma itself. I find this funny because at my graduation, a mom came up to the stage to give her son his diploma and gave him a hug after (and the principal approved). Yet at this graduation, a student is refused his diploma for something similar.
That, I agree with. He did earn the diploma. I question the legality of it.
Frankly, I think it's been blown out of proportion on both sides.
The answer to 1984 is 1776! Homeschool because a mind is a terrible thing to waste! The numbers and stats don't lie, the USA need not have public schools. When the GOV gets involved in health care with "managed health care" we see people begging for medical care. The GOV is involved in education and we suffer and fail as a result. Am I the only person who notices the USA no longer a first world nation?
Well, this makes no sense until you realize that the point of schools is not to educate anymore, but rather to implement social control. Scratch and educator, and you'll find an autocrat more interested in rules than enlightenment.
That's why I took my son out of public school. We currently homeschool, might enroll him in a private school this fall, still looking at options.
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