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Originally Posted by Alphagamuga
Tickets assigned to a specific graduate. If it's your guest, then you lose. So if you invite the folks who scream for someone else, you lose your diploma, not the person whose name was yelled at.
The graduate did commit an act. He or she invited the losers.
I've got no problem removing or arresting the guest too, but I think it will further ruin the ceremony for the people who have been acting appropriately. ("Graduation was nice this year;they only had to remove 30 guests by force.")
I think you've got to put it on the graduate, so they send the message too: "no, I really don't want you to scream at my name. That's not cool. I want my diploma." And the yellers need to believe that the graduate means it.
I think teenagers have a lot of influence on their parents. In fact, I think a lot of parents are downright manipulated by them. And it I think it's important to remember that the school is asking the parents too. The parents are welcome to come if they won't holler and blast air horns. If a teenager can't depend on his or her parents not to do something they've specifically been asked not to do, this won't be the last time the kids is in an awkward position because of them. And that's not a good enough reason to let them ruin the graduation ceremony.
This policy will work well to create future events with the decorum the rest of the school wants. It penalized the people over whom the school legitimately has control.
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But here's the thing, the guest can easily ''lose" their tickets if that's an issue, and it'll come down to who they were cheering for. I don't know any high school graduation that has assigned seating.
We didn't have this problem in HS because our graduation is a Mass. But my precommencement in college did. Basically the guy just read the names very clearly into a mike. No one got covered up.
You have really negative view about teenagers and their parents. Believe me, the majority of people I know could not have controlled if their parents/relatives were going to come to graduation. Usually those people can get tickets on their own too.
And yes, it penalized the people the school has control over, but it penalized the wrong people. Removal from the property seems appropriate to me.