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

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by kstar

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?

That's how I feel about it too. Besides the fact that it puts a 17 or 18 year old in a horrible position to try to tell their parents that they can't come to graduation. I mean, the kid (and they are still kids, really) has to live with these people, is dependent on them financially and may well need their support to get to college, etc.