Local school board announced that no cow bells, no air horns, no noise makers would be allowed at High School graduations. No hooting or hollering. This is a formal event and although we understand your excitement, please act accordingly.

About 3 names in, cow bell. They stopped, deputies gave them a choice, surrender the cow bell or leave. They surrendered.

More names, air horn. Again they stopped. School Board President said "We will not be here all night, behave"

More names, a group of guys in the audience stood up, took off their shirts and had the grads name written on their chest in paint. They started hollering, they got escorted out and ticketed.

That seemed to get the message across.

I dunno. Kids will be kids. It is, after all, a celebration of THEIR accomplishment, let them ruin it how they see fit (keeping it legal, anyway).

These are probably the idiot parents and relatives of the graduating students. You know, the ones who are supposed to be a good example.

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Originally posted by exx1976:
I dunno. Kids will be kids. It is, after all, a celebration of THEIR accomplishment, let them ruin it how they see fit (keeping it legal, anyway).

Respectfully disagree. Not everything is a party. At the very least they need to learn respect for others. A little respect for tradition wouldn't hurt either.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
At the very least they need to learn respect for others.

I sometimes wonder how much of an “accomplishment” it is to graduate from high school these days but if it’s something I was proud of, I would want the ceremony recognizing the fact to be something I could be proud of as well rather than an embarrassment to me and my school and an annoyance to my guests who were there to celebrate with me. It’s more than a little ironic that some people believe that an end-of-year event for third graders is important enough that a parent should make a major work sacrifice to attend, but that others(?) believe it’s okay to turn a real cause for celebration into something out of Animal House.

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Originally posted by ulsterman:
More names, a group of guys in the audience stood up, took off their shirts and had the grads name written on their chest in paint. They started hollering, they got escorted out and ticketed.

That seemed to get the message across.

With that shallow a gene pool.....this will likely be the height of accomplishment in their lives...............

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Originally posted by exx1976:
I dunno. Kids will be kids. It is, after all, a celebration of THEIR accomplishment, let them ruin it how they see fit (keeping it legal, anyway).

I understand "kids will be kids". These weren't children, at least age wise. These were parents with the cow bells, air horns and sirens.

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Originally posted by sgalczyn:

....this will likely be the height of accomplishment in their lives...............

This big time. Always seems to be a certain demographic...

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Originally posted by Sig209:

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Originally posted by sgalczyn:

....this will likely be the height of accomplishment in their lives...............

This big time. Always seems to be a certain demographic...

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Same type of people who are still wearing the letter jacket on their 30th birthday.

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Originally posted by exx1976:
I dunno. Kids will be kids. It is, after all, a celebration of THEIR accomplishment, let them ruin it how they see fit (keeping it legal, anyway).

Apparently writing someone's name on your chest is illegal in that municipality. They were ticketed for their offense. So there goes that argument.

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Originally posted by exx1976:
I dunno. Kids will be kids. It is, after all, a celebration of THEIR accomplishment, let them ruin it how they see fit (keeping it legal, anyway).

I suggest that their right to ruin it stops when they disrupt the proceedings. If that had happened at my grandson's graduation this month (straight-A honor student, college scholarship winner, athletic trophy winner) I would have wanted to see the hoodlums escorted out by LE, in handcuffs if necessary.

A firm no-nonsense response to the first instance of this crap might have precluded any further displays.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:

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Originally posted by exx1976:
I dunno. Kids will be kids. It is, after all, a celebration of THEIR accomplishment, let them ruin it how they see fit (keeping it legal, anyway).

Apparently writing someone's name on your chest is illegal in that municipality. They were ticketed for their offense. So there goes that argument.

Nope but Public Intox and Disturbing the Peace is.

There is an appropriate way to show appreciation for an accomplishment in a public setting, it's called applause.

I think this noise/attention making is more about the parents, family and friends wanting their kid to seem more important and "loved" than others. "My kid got the loudest acknowledgement... he/she is more loved than the other kids"

It has been a few years but when both son's graduated high school it was disgraceful. Parents and families were the culprit. They acted like 10 year olds when their kids names were announced.

Exactly what PHPaul said.

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Originally posted by NavyGuy:
I think this noise/attention making is more about the parents, family and friends wanting their kid to seem more important and "loved" than others. "My kid got the loudest acknowledgement... he/she is more loved than the other kids"

I think you're on to something there. I'm going to my niece's graduation tonight with my family. When my wife mentioned to her sister that we might not go because my son isn't feeling well, there was an awful lot of persuasion as to why we had to go. Your explanation would explain why. It figured there must be some kind of competition to see how many relatives you can get to show up at the graduation. Said niece will have around 15-20 at the ceremony.

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Originally posted by Jeff Yarchin:
It has been a few years but when both son's graduated high school it was disgraceful. Parents and families were the culprit. They acted like 10 year olds when their kids names were announced.

"Acted like 10 year olds" is exactly right. These parents and their graduating yahoos have no manners, no adult sense of respectfulness. They don't know how to be happy and proud unless they are hooting and carrying on like children.

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Originally posted by ulsterman:
Local school board announced that no cow bells, no air horns, no noise makers would be allowed at High School graduations. No hooting or hollering. This is a formal event and although we understand your excitement, please act accordingly.

About 3 names in, cow bell. They stopped, deputies gave them a choice, surrender the cow bell or leave. They surrendered.

More names, air horn. Again they stopped. School Board President said "We will not be here all night, behave"

More names, a group of guys in the audience stood up, took off their shirts and had the grads name written on their chest in paint. They started hollering, they got escorted out and ticketed.

That seemed to get the message across.

This is not a sporting event. Trash.

Sometimes this is an achievement grander than expected.

What were the noted demographics?

Around here they appear to fall into one common demographic.