Students don't get diploma due to excess cheering from crowd

[CutiePie2000]

There's an etiquette advice columnist who I enjoy reading (Darcey Smart) and to quote her wise words:
"We live in a world where a hint of criticism is treated as an act of aggression and all and sundry feel entitled to behave any old way they like, with the exception of those of us who dare to speak up in defence of civility and are immeddiated muzzled for our pains."

[kstar]

Originally Posted by Alphagamuga

This is random, but I'll use an example from another thread to illustrate what I mean: right now, one person is explaining how lying to her GLO to get out of having to staying active when she wanted to go alum was what she needed to do. She admits she lied, but she details how she got around the policies of her group because it's what she wanted to do, and the group couldn't/didn't stop her.

I point that out as a particular illustration of there being some people who don't do what's right or even what they've agreed to do. They instead seem to operate with the idea that they are entitled to do whatever they can get away with.

The same type of thing happens with public behavior at graduation. Most people go along with what's expected. Other people go along because they feel like they've agreed to act a certain way based on being allowed to attend. But a few others seem to take the view that they are entitled to do whatever you can't actually stop them from doing.

So if they know the cops won't come and kick them out, they they will yell or do whatever. For these people, there always have to be a punishment or penalty that they know they will face for doing what other people would just do because it was good manners.

Rather than calling in the people to forcible remove people from the graduation ceremony, this school decided to go with a different but equally undesirable "or what?" or "who is going to make me?" consequence for the people who won't do what they were asked to do. They were going to hold the diplomas of the people they came to see graduate.

They told everyone the plan way in advance. They expected the jerks to modify their behavior as not to penalize the honoree, but the jerks didn't. Now the school just needs to follow through with what was spelled out as the consequence.

I think it's fine. Sooner or later, the jerks will stop being invited to graduation.

But the penalty should always be a threat against the person committing the act, punishing someone else isn't just. What's to stop people who are pissed at another screaming then, preventing that person from getting their diploma?