Fantasia Gets Honorary Diploma
 

...um...ok? If we get lucky that trainwreck of a show will get taken off



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The American Idol third-season champ received an honorary degree from Andrews High School in High Point, NC on Saturday, CBS' WFMY-TV Greensboro affiliate reported.

Barrino attended the school as a teenager but subsequently dropped out when she became pregnant at the age of 16. She subsequently gave birth to her daughter Zion in August 2001.

Barrino attended Saturday's graduation ceremony at the Greensboro Coliseum and donned a cap and gown as she walked with the high school's Class of 2010.

VH1 renewed Fantasia for Real, a reality series that follows Barrino as she balances her personal and professional lives, for a second season in April.

It is currently slated to premiere later this year.

taking ignant hat off/
That's wonderful that they honored her.

putting ignant hat back on/
It takes an ignant broken English bitch to need an honorary high school diploma. She's such a statistic even with whatever talent and success she has.

ok...now cock tha' hat to tha' side and post....

ignant hat cocked to the side/
what it is, what it do.

...just walks off...shaking his head....

I've heard of awarding someone an honorary Doctorate or even an honorary Law degree but, never a high school diploma. I didn't even know they did such a thing. Maybe some school wanted to be able to brag that Fantasia carries their name with her. I don't know. I just didn't realize you could do that. That is very interesting.

Honorary diplomas are given a lot of times, I just thought that with everything that she has been going thru that maybe she would get a real one...not for show.

ETA: It was her old high school BTW...read the article

She's a little young to be getting an honorary diploma. She could have earned her GED with no problem.

My high school gave my great-grandpa an honorary high school diploma... when he was in his 80's though. He went to high school there, left school early to join WWI, after the war was accepted at Notre Dame (even without finishing high school) and played football for Knute Rockne, then became a popular northern ohio architect.

Did she have her GED already?

Let's not confuse that with her getting her GED...and I may need to correct myself somewhat also.

She passed her GED test but along with that, she is getting the opportunity to walk the stage also...I am thinking that is the point of the article.


@Drolefille....nah

DS.... haaaaa, that makes more sense. But still... a little premature, IMO.

I'm confused. Is she an ignant broken English bitch or had she been proactive and gotten a GED?

She got her GED but got all the trimmings (7 years later) to go along with it.

Okay. Then I would like to apologize to Fantasia.

She's still a statistic.

Ah see well then I think it's cool for her.

Ok...so I am confused by why this would be a an 'honorary diploma' since she earned it.

It's 'honorary' because she didn't earn an actual diploma from the school. She earned the equivalent but not the real thing so to speak.

Ok...that's it then...moving along...another slow news day thread coming...

LOL I wait on the edge of my seat. :p

I'm just happy she finally conquered reading. She could have just stayed in that condition, but she chose to try harder. She's not perfect. I certainly don't watch her show to know what she's up to now, but I think all schools should welcome back those who completed their GEDs. They should be allowed to walk at graduation. I had many friends who couldn't pass state-wide exams and had to get GED's even though they completed school with acceptable or better grades.

DaemonSeid is fired as the GC news person and not just because this isn't news. LOL. He was supposed to tell us about the GED in the first post. Darnit.

You kain't fire me...it's lazy slow news week

I think that would be really cool.

I also agree.

Anyway:

http://uploadingit.com/file/5wqlvuz7...fantasiacrying

LOL. She's so animated.

Do you have that clip of her and Kandi dancing in the mirror. They were gettin' it. LOL.

Damn, is there a mosquito or something after her. Maybe she is getting her honorary diploma from the Joe Cocker High School of performance arts.

LMAOOOOOOO Joe Cocker!

Wait. When did she receive her GED. I don't reeaaallly want to admit this, but I watched her reality show last season and she was still studying for it. Has she gotten it since then?

Sounds like she got it just prior to (honorary) graduating.

Ahhhhh. Hmm.

I think I might be the only person who doesn't think she is that talented.

And Dr. Phil you're right, she's just another statistic.

With all the $ she has earned why doesn't she actually put it to some good use and, I don't know, go to college. Oh but wait, that means she wouldn't have taken 9 years to get her GED after dropping out of high school. You ain't gonna have your voice forever you need to have a back-up plan.

lmfao at DrPhil's first post.

Congrats (or congrads... or congregations) to her, I guess. With all that money I'd AT LEAST be going to ITT Tech or something. I thought she was supposed be setting an example for all the other broke down country statistics. But then again, maybe I'm being too hard.. she did just get her "diploma."

I don't think I could ever stand to watch her show... did anyone see her movie? I thought it was a hot mess.

Why would you go to ITT Tech if you have a platinum album, a gold album, starred in a hit Broadway play, and oh yeah, won American Idol?

Y'all be smokin that GOOD crack.

lol I said AT LEAST. It's better than nothing.

^^^ This.

Unless she blows it all in the next few years she has plenty of time to try more education later if she wants. Odds are her learning difficulties are severe enough that she's probably not inclined in that direction when she has so many other options.

Lets see...

1. She's not the most successful American Idol.
2. Her broadway play, not on broadway anymore. She may have earned good reviews but she wasn't nominated for anything.

The whole point of my original comment and then the comment about ITT was that she won't have her voice forever. Someone new is going to come around and Fantasia will be history.

IMO Fantasia will not be a blip on the music radar 5-10 years from now. Fantasia's voice is not unique.

I just don't think people, especially musicians and actors, should put all their eggs in one basket, because eventually that basket will dry up. The whole point was that she needs a back-up plan.

But then again, if she really cared about her future beyond music or even considered a future beyond music, she wouldn't have taken 9 years to get a GED. But that is just my opinion.

I understand your point, it's just not a good one. So she's not THE most successful winner. She's still outsold all but five other finalists. Someone with a platinum album, gold album, a book, an appearance on Broadway, a reality show, and a starring role in an upcoming film is obviously not putting all their eggs in one basket.

That's advice you would give to a 16 year old who is auditioning for American Idol, not somebody who won.

My point still stands that she ISN'T the most successful AI! Because she's not.

The acceptable minimum educational attainment is a high school diploma or GED. She has that. I wouldn't expect for her to go beyond that unless her success and money wane.

At the same time, it isn't unheard of for a celeb to pursue a degree or certificate. Celebs with known learning disabilities have more resources than noncelebs with learning disabilities. And we don't know whether she's wealthy or just rich, the latter can easily disappear in a number of years.

LOL. It's Fantasia and I neither care about her career (I hate her voice) nor her personal life.

Your point is silly because you don't have to be the most successful American Idol winner in order to be a success.