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It's been a while since Anderson Cooper Attended a High School Graduation.

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lcmamom:
http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_bn1#/video/us/2012/06/08/ac-ridiculist-punishing-graduation-cheering.cnn

Two parents in different cities have been punished for excessive cheering at their child's high school graduation.  They made Mr. Cooper's "Ridiculist."  Having attended graduation ceremonies where parents brought air horns and screamed (not cheered) I think the administrators have a point.

I guess my question is who was rude? The parents or administrators?

QueenofAllThings:
Parents.

My two oldest boys went to different high schools, and it's enough of a problem that the schools felt the need to warn parents, and students, in advance. One school went so far as to really threaten students with no diploma, etc. if they released beach balls, blew air horns, etc.

When the Dauphin graduated college, the school also asked everyone to be courteous. Most were -  ::) - but not all.

crella:
While arresting people was a little overboard, the parents were wrong. With the pace some graduations move at, if one person does the 'whooo-hooo!' like the arrested mother said she did, two other families won't hear their child's name read. Her attitude was really 'it's all about me'-


--- Quote ---"I am a proud mom," said Cooper, a beautician from Florence. "And as soon as they said 'Christin' I stood up, started praising, woohooing and cheering it up for my baby. I was like 'Go baby! You did it'."
--- End quote ---

So it sounds pretty over the top, especially after they specifically announced that people were not to cheer, and applause was to be left till the end of the ceremony.

Ceallach:
I personally think the rules about no cheering or clapping are unrealistic.   Plus, who wants to walk across the stage in silence?  Yet, I would respect those rules if they were in place.  Obviously if people are breaking the rules, it's perfectly ok for the administration to respond to that. 

At the graduations I have been to, you clap everytime a name is read and the recipient goes up to receive their scroll.  Does that mean sore hands? Yep. And it means some people get more applause than others.  But it's nice.  And yes, people cheer.  They cheer when somebody they know goes up to receive, and then they stop once they've been presented.  And then the next name is read.  I hear stories on here about excessive noise and rudeness, but I've never come across that.  Sure, there's normally 1 family in every crowd who are slightly over the top, but it doesn't disrupt the ceremony.   I think it's sad that this is apparently such a big deal in some places.

O'Dell:
But Oprah cheering wasn't what the parents were doing. She was cheering during her speech, not when the diplomas were being handed out.

I think the cheering is silly. Not everything needs to be celebrated loudly every moment like a sporting event. However, I don't think it's right to punish the student. It was the parents who acted badly. But how to punish them so the rules "stick" I dunno.

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