It is amazing just how distorted a story can get when it hits the news and turns into a national story.
Popular senior denied diploma because of too much cheering
You may have heard about a Cincinnati Area kid who was denied his diploma because his fans cheered him as he was presented his diploma cover. THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED!
Of course, you have to read beyond the first paragraph to know that Anthony Cornist's diploma (and 3 other students from his graduating class) is being held until he (and the other three students) does 20 hours of community service for the school district because of EXCESSIVE cheering. The clip in the linked news story showing the video (without permission from me, my company or the school we were contracted to do this for) only shows Cornist. But when it came to every other student, their fans/parents cheered to the point where the student got to shake hands with the principal. At that point the next name is read. The issue was the length of the cheering and people not having any respect for the other 300 students in the class waiting to hear their name called.
The other fact that is overlooked is that parents SIGNED A CONTRACT IN ORDER TO GET THEIR TICKETS to the graduation explaining in plain simple English (large letters too) that if parents or fans of the student disrupted the roll call, it would be the student who would have to suffer the consequences. The same notice came to them in the envelope with the tickets. It was not a surprise.
There is cheering, and then there is being an inconsiderate JERK! By the time this story make it to ABC News, they had twisted it to seem as if Mt. Healthy did not allow cheering at all! That was definitely not the case! By contrast, another graduation I did has a zero tolerance policy on cheering during the roll call. And everyone followed it this year. A class twice the size as Mt. Healthy's was read off in the same amount of time. Much more civilized (Northwest)
As some one who does on average 12 graduations a year I can tell you that I like schools that allow cheering for a few seconds per student, but what happens as the list gets deeper into the alphabet, the cheers get longer and louder and more disruptive as every group wants to out do the next.
Popular senior denied diploma because of too much cheering
You may have heard about a Cincinnati Area kid who was denied his diploma because his fans cheered him as he was presented his diploma cover. THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED!
Of course, you have to read beyond the first paragraph to know that Anthony Cornist's diploma (and 3 other students from his graduating class) is being held until he (and the other three students) does 20 hours of community service for the school district because of EXCESSIVE cheering. The clip in the linked news story showing the video (without permission from me, my company or the school we were contracted to do this for) only shows Cornist. But when it came to every other student, their fans/parents cheered to the point where the student got to shake hands with the principal. At that point the next name is read. The issue was the length of the cheering and people not having any respect for the other 300 students in the class waiting to hear their name called.
The other fact that is overlooked is that parents SIGNED A CONTRACT IN ORDER TO GET THEIR TICKETS to the graduation explaining in plain simple English (large letters too) that if parents or fans of the student disrupted the roll call, it would be the student who would have to suffer the consequences. The same notice came to them in the envelope with the tickets. It was not a surprise.
There is cheering, and then there is being an inconsiderate JERK! By the time this story make it to ABC News, they had twisted it to seem as if Mt. Healthy did not allow cheering at all! That was definitely not the case! By contrast, another graduation I did has a zero tolerance policy on cheering during the roll call. And everyone followed it this year. A class twice the size as Mt. Healthy's was read off in the same amount of time. Much more civilized (Northwest)
As some one who does on average 12 graduations a year I can tell you that I like schools that allow cheering for a few seconds per student, but what happens as the list gets deeper into the alphabet, the cheers get longer and louder and more disruptive as every group wants to out do the next.
