June 16, 2009

Senior Loses Diploma For Blowing Kiss


Really? I mean really....

Senior Loses Diploma For Blowing Kiss
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For teens, there is no greater joy than graduating high school. Shaking off the shackles of education and claiming that hard-fought diploma is truly an epic day. Unfortunately, for several students at Bonny Eagle High School in Maine, their natural exuberance has led to some surprisingly serious problems.

On Friday night, when the senior class was waiting to graduate, excitement began to grow. Students bounced a large inflatable rubber duck. The noise level rose. And then came "the kiss." When called, one student walked on stage to receive his diploma and blew a kiss to his family. The school administrator, clearly not the sentimental sort, sent the student back to his seat ... sans diploma.

The seemingly harsh punishment has sent the Web all aflutter. Searches on "student denied diploma" and "bonny eagle high school" are both through the roof. Additionally, blogs and news papers are chiming in with opinions on whether or not the administration overreacted. The student's mother has given interviews and is quite upset at her son's treatment. According to an article from Fox News the outraged mother said, "A bow, a kiss to your mom is not misbehavior."

But the administrators feel they were just enforcing the rules that students agreed to. At a meeting following the debacle, school superintendent Suzanne Lukas said that "if a student doesn't adhere to the expectations, then the consequences are clearly spelled out."

Senior Loses Diploma For Blowing Kiss

Posted at June 16, 2009 9:12 PM
Comments

This is really assanine. That principle should be thrown out on the street. Its gradution...the kids are excited. Throwing a kiss is not grounds to lose your diploma....The school board really needs a meeting to vote that principle out.

Posted by: Sandy Myers at June 17, 2009 3:27 PM

This is really assanine. That principle should be thrown out on the street. Its gradution...the kids are excited. Throwing a kiss is not grounds to lose your diploma....The school board really needs a meeting to vote that principle out.

Posted by: Sandy Myers at June 17, 2009 3:27 PM

This is really assanine. That principle should be thrown out on the street. Its gradution...the kids are excited. Throwing a kiss is not grounds to lose your diploma....The school board really needs a meeting to vote that principle out.

Posted by: Sandy Myers at June 17, 2009 3:27 PM

That's something crazy. Such rules absolutely have no reason!

Posted by: Sarah, diploma owner at July 10, 2009 2:46 PM

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