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Sounds like so far on this post people are thinking it is wrong that she was arrested. Well, guess I am going to differ in that opinion. Good. Glad she was. Seriously, EVERY CHILD deserves to have his/her name heard at graduation as well as EVERY PARENT deserves to hear his/her child's name being called out. At the graduations I have been to the principle will make some statement/"threat/warning" that action would be taken if yelling and hollering is done during the "call" of the graduates names. That there will be a time after all of the names are said that cheering would be allowed. Then nothing, NOT one thing is done. Ridiculous! I think I have heard of maybe two times that something has been actually done. One the principle stopped the calling after people ignored the warnings until people quieted down. Another that someone was removed from "audience" for yelling. Who, knows maybe this school has been one that people don't listen to the warnings and maybe this graduation they had been warned repeatedly to keep it down. This sounds like an example is being shown to try to deter people from not listening to the no yelling/hollering request. I think it is completely and utterly selfish how some people act at graduations, yelling and carrying on. As I said EVERYONE deserves to have their name heard/and to hear their loved one's name called. Wonder what these "yellers" would think if if it was their loved one who name was called after someone else that had a bunch of "hollers" and due to the yelling could not or only barely heard their graduates name. Sometimes the principle will get upset and flustered from all the yelling (of course doing NOTHING to stop it) and read the names ever faster. So, I have to say. YES!!! Seriously glad they took action instead of making a "threat" of action and doing nothing.
Back here in South Africa, when I attended school awards ceremonies (often as my daughter was an ace student her whole way through school) the entire audience of parents applauded the students on their achievements.
It is called pause for applause for a reason.
We do not have graduating ceremonies except at college and uni level as students are gone from HS by the time the final exam results come out. They simply collect their certificates the following year from the school.
Awards are given however for athletic and academic achievements in the course of the year just passed before schools close for the xmas break.
Have you been to a high school graduation lately? These cheers go on and on and they read the graduates names one after another so while these idiots are carrying on about their kid, 3 families cannot hear their own child's name called. It's common manners that the school is asking for.
My son graduated last year. Had around 900 kids in his class. They have to read the names fairly fast so they can get through the program. After the principle asked very nicely to please not cheer for your kid it seemed that the parents who showed up in jeans and t-shirts just didn't care. It was really bad with beach balls floating around. At least 100 kids's names were drowned out by the noise of rude people.
Maybe some of you haven't been to a HS graduation ceremony in recent years. If not, then you probably wouldn't recognize it if you compared it to your own back in the day. I've been to three in the past five years, and I was really unprepared for all the rowdiness. And these graduations were in different schools in different districts.
Now, it seems some of the parents are less mature than their kids. Beach balls, boat horns, screaming, you name it - they carry on like a bunch of drunken monkeys.
I support schools like this one in SC that are trying to return to some small degree of sanity.
Why?
Didn't you think your kid was going to graduate?
Is it really that big a deal? Is s/he the first in the family to do so or something?
I was at every single teacher conference, some I was working OT but still drove the company truck to the school and sat in the conference in my dirty work clothes. I was the parent volunteer at countless field trips. I ate lunch with my kids and their friends many times. I coached my son's hockey and baseball teams for years until he advanced past my level.
On graduation day I wore a suit and my wife and daughter wore dresses to the commencement. I saw all these people show up with jeans, t-shirts, shorts and tennis shoes. They were the loud ones who brought the beach balls and disrupted the ceremony as much as they could.
You know, I can't remember ever seeing them on a field trip, or their kids in any sports, or chess club or anything. Too bad they didn't have some of that enthusiasm when it actually mattered.
The Mother ahead of time planned to defy the request not to disrupt the ceremony ... and understood she would be escorted from the property. This is what I've read in "local" news reports of the incident. We don't know everything that happened because we weren't there. I suspect, however, that there's more to the story than we know. I've pieced together a picture of what happened, though: an ignorant woman was arrested for acting ignorantly. Shameful behavior to subject her daughter to.
Should she have been arrested? No, but if all other parents have the ability to listen to the rules laid out prior to the ceremony and keep their yaps shut as asked then she should too.
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