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Agreed. If you're so caught up in your own external display of feeling that the next family doesn't get to experience the feeling at all, you're self-absorbed.
Agreed. If you're so caught up in your own external display of feeling that the next family doesn't get to experience the feeling at all, you're self-absorbed.
But at the graduations I have been at if there was a cheer it was a 2 second cheer and WAY before
another name was called.. There was no chance it affected anyone..
At the Milbrook graduation, the audience was asked five or six times (before the calling of each section of names) to hold applause until the end. That request was also in the program. I assume the spirit of that request included more than applause, since the intent was to clearly hear as each name was called and give each graduate his/her due. Believe me, I heard much more than applause. Yelling would be more like it. I don't understand the defiance, unless it's just "nobody's going to tell ME what to do." My brother was an elementary school principal. He retired as soon as he could. He said the kids were not the problem, the parents were.
At the Milbrook graduation, the audience was asked five or six times (before the calling of each section of names) to hold applause until the end. That request was also in the program. I assume the spirit of that request included more than applause, since the intent was to clearly hear as each name was called and give each graduate his/her due. Believe me, I heard much more than applause. Yelling would be more like it. I don't understand the defiance, unless it's just "nobody's going to tell ME what to do." My brother was an elementary school principal. He retired as soon as he could. He said the kids were not the problem, the parents were.
That's why I quit teaching.
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At the Milbrook graduation, the audience was asked five or six times (before the calling of each section of names) to hold applause until the end. That request was also in the program. I assume the spirit of that request included more than applause, since the intent was to clearly hear as each name was called and give each graduate his/her due. Believe me, I heard much more than applause. Yelling would be more like it. I don't understand the defiance, unless it's just "nobody's going to tell ME what to do." My brother was an elementary school principal. He retired as soon as he could. He said the kids were not the problem, the parents were.
Our son graduated from Cary HS last week. They followed the same protocol as Millbrook and probably many (all?) of the other high schools in Wake County. The audience was very restrained in the first two or three rounds; then one or two families broke the rules and there was no stopping the deluge that followed. There almost was a fight between two groups next to us -- one that was very loud, rude, and inconsiderate -- and another that was following the rules. It was freakin' ridiculous. My son told us later that several of the students whose families did this whispered their apologies to the principal before crossing the stage.
I get that people are excited, but the lack of respect toward the other families was absurd. And yes, it may seem harmless to some, but when it's YOUR kid whose name is read while the hootin' and hollerin' are going on for the prior student, it's enough to make you want to go off on these b******s.
And the "security" guards paid to keep order and escort the ******es out? What a joke.
^I don't get it, either. I never met an 18yo that wanted his/her parents screaming and carrying on like it was a sporting event when they graduated. Is waving, thumbs up, and blowing kisses insufficient until the program is done?
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There can't be 2 seconds between the names. That would mean about 15-20 minutes of dead time in a graduation that lasts an hour. Students have to process and recess, all names have to be called, there are speakers and sometimes entertainment. The whole thing is timed very tightly. There's no getting around how one family's cheering steals time from other graduates and their families.
Our daughter from Cary High ordered us not to cheer in any way she said it would be so embarrassing and that all her friends felt the same way. She said after the ceremony the same thing that ERH's son said the students whose families flaunted the rules and cheered were mortified.
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