You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
Not giving a kid his diploma because his family cheered for him.
Seriously?
It’s like the soup Nazi on Seinfeld.
“No diploma for you!”
That’s crazy.
The boy is on the stage, cap and gown on. He is looking for his family in the crowd, he sees his mother, and gives her a quick smile. His adrenaline is surging and he is beaming with pride.
The boy walks to the principal who shakes his hand and gives him a certificate of completion.
The crowd, as it has done for every child that has crossed the stage so far, erupts into cheers.
The applause lasts all of 5 seconds and the young man walks to the side of the stage and the next kid’s name is called.
It happened this way pretty much in every graduation ceremony across the country.
99.9% of every student who walked the stage got their diploma.
Not Anthony Cornist. Apparently in Cincinnati, cheering enthusiastically is some sort of offense.
When the 18 year old went to pick up his diploma the officials at Mt. Healthy High School said come back when you complete 20 hours of community service.
Community Service? To get a diploma? For cheering enthusiastically for 5 seconds at a boy’s graduation?
I think Mt. Healthy needs a check up. This High School staff needs to go collectively check themselves into rehab.
According to published reports, Anthony’s mother, Tracey Cornist, does not dispute that the family cheered loudly, but she does not believe the punishment fits the crime.
What crime?
The kid didn’t bring an Uzi to the graduation ceremony. He wasn’t trying to move a kilo of coke at the commencement. He was trying to graduate, and they said, “go to the back of the class young man. Your mom cheered to loudly.
“It took away so much from how happy I was. It makes absolutely no sense,”
That sums it up. It makes no sense.
The school’s Superintendent, Lori Handler, said that it was not the volume of the yells, but how long they lasted that was the problem because it brought the ceremony to a halt.
That’s like getting mad at the sun for being too bright it made you squint.
It’s like blaming the ocean for making noise when the wave crash on shore.
When she is not acting superintendent,Lori Handler is out clubbing baby seals and throwing paint on women in fur coats.
Superintendent Handler said that parents had agreed in advance that this type of action would be taken for “disruptive behavior” when they ordered graduation tickets.
I get it Handler, I get it. The parents of the kid coming next after the cheers deserves to hear their child’s name called.
Would it kill you to wait an extra 2 seconds while the cheers subside and the next graduate takes position.
In a world where so much in high school goes wrong, something positive was penalized.
and that is crazy.™