Another Graduation Question

[ASTalumna06]

It's so funny you bring this up..

Even though this story is from a year ago, I just ran into it online the other day. A woman was arrested for cheering too loud/crazily at her kid's graduation ceremony.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...the-cuffs?lite

That's all I got.

[aephi alum]

Perhaps. When my husband graduated with his MBA, when the graduates from the School of Education were announced, an entire section of spectators (presumably their family, friends, and School of Education students who weren't graduating that year) started SCREAMING. I was wondering when I'd fallen out of the auditorium and into the middle of a rock concert.

Back in my day, it was the graduates who acted the fools. At my HS graduation, someone got hold of a gigantic beach ball with a print of the Earth on it. A bunch of kids in the bleachers started tossing it around mid-ceremony. When the ceremony was rebroadcast on the education public access channel, the "Earth ball" bit was conveniently edited out.

[StealthMode]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

It's so funny you bring this up..

Even though this story is from a year ago, I just ran into it online the other day. A woman was arrested for cheering too loud/crazily at her kid's graduation ceremony.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...the-cuffs?lite

That's all I got.

LOL This happened at my cousin's graduation last week. They gave the obligatory announcement but they were not kidding. A few families (including mine) gave a "Whoo!" hurriedly, but this lady went nuts when her daughter crossed the stage. Then she grabbed her 2 toddlers and took off running with security chasing after her. Yes, I laughed.

Honestly, I don't like sitting in a hot, stuffy auditorium while a million people graduate. I get that the ceremony is long and boring and you want to "maintain the dignity of the ceremony." But if Big Mama's dignity is crossing the stage today, let her holler. Aside from the people who act up just to do so, I do understand that, after how long and hard the students (and often their families) worked to get to that moment, it's too special to be rushed.

[pshsx1]

Originally Posted by StealthMode

]Honestly, I don't like sitting in a hot, stuff auditorium while a million people graduate. I get that the ceremony is long and boring and you want to "maintain the dignity of the ceremony." But if Big Mama's dignity is crossing the stage today, let her holler. Aside from the people who act up just to do so, I do understand that, after how long and hard the students (and often their families) worked to get to that moment, it's too special to be rushed.

THIS.

Also, I don't really get how names can be missed. Generally, graduations are in venues equipped with sound systems to be heard over a roaring crowd of people. Honestly, most people are only listening for their graduate's name anyway. Again, I graduated high school with 1300 other people and my family managed to find where I was seated and when I walked, despite the fact that I graduated in a pro-basketball arena and despite whatever other noise was going on.

But people who bring airhorns and jugs full of quarters and vuvuzelas and everything else are just being excessive. I totally agree there.

Originally Posted by StealthMode

You have NO idea. She ain't grab no shoes or nuttin', Jesus! She RAN for her life!

Originally Posted by NinjaPoodle

aaaaaaand I died. rofl.