Quiet down, it's a graduation!

[lildog]

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070521/LOCAL18/705210394/1195/LOCAL18

Hold your applause or you'll be thrown off the property.
That's the message Superintendent Eugene White is sending to the families of Indianapolis Public School graduates who will attend this year's commencement ceremonies.
White sent letters to graduates earlier this month informing them and their families about the new policy forbidding cheering during the reading of the graduates' names. The goal is to restore decorum to the ceremonies and make certain that every name can be heard.
White's letter reminds students that attending a graduation ceremony is a privilege, not a right. A spokeswoman for IPS said 30 school police officers will be on hand to enforce the rules.

[Dreepa]

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070521/LOCAL18/705210394/1195/LOCAL18

Hold your applause or you'll be thrown off the property.
That's the message Superintendent Eugene White is sending to the families of Indianapolis Public School graduates who will attend this year's commencement ceremonies.
White sent letters to graduates earlier this month informing them and their families about the new policy forbidding cheering during the reading of the graduates' names. The goal is to restore decorum to the ceremonies and make certain that every name can be heard.
White's letter reminds students that attending a graduation ceremony is a privilege, not a right. A spokeswoman for IPS said 30 school police officers will be on hand to enforce the rules.

A bunch of students should boycott and have their own party with their families screaming when their names are called.

[toowm]

We went to my daughter's ballet recital yesterday, unfortunately in Massachusetts. When we went to pick her up there were about 8 thugs wearing black shirts with "SECURITY" on the back. They were ordering people around who were just trying to collect or even just see their kids. My older son played dumb a couple of times when they had us move one way, then another. After he stuck his tongue out at the back of one of them, another one took an "interest" in us. I pointedly ignored him, stood straight, and waved to my daughter to get her through the gestapo line.

I've been to many other recitals and games with the same crush of people trying to collect kids. This crowd was ruder than any other, but I think it's because there is a "security" presence.  When people are dealing with a crowded & noisy crowd, most take in stride and even do little niceties for each other. Some folks push around, but the group tends to shun them. You'll even see parents telling there kids how rude such behavior is. With "authorities" around, they became de facto in charge of the group dynamic and people don't restrain themselves.

[Skooma]

I'm sure the pigs will be armed.

A fine send off. I suppose it is so they don't miss the place.

[sandm000]

I graduated from an Indianapolis public school. I was bussed into Lawrence Central High School.  When I graduated I slept through the commencment speech and two of the the valedictory speeches (I could've gotten straight A's in remedial english, 'real' math, and study hall instead of AP physics, AP Calculus, AP Chemistry, and AP Biology, but I digress...) During the graduation ceremony there is a group of parents, most notably of students bussed into the outlying schoold districts from the inner city, who raise all kinds of hell at graduation, most likely because they are proud of their child and their child's accomplishment (see: naches)

However, at times the words used to celebrate a march across the stage are innappropriate. (Mutha F*ckin Pomp & Circumstance anyone?) So while the administration would love to limit the amount of noise to be made, it is likely they are afraid of accusations of racism, so they are preventing anyone from making any noise until the end.

I graduated across the stage at Deer Creek (Now Verizon Wireless Music Center), in a class of almost 700, there were greater than 4500 family members present to witness the graduation.

With all that said, and possibly not at all relevant, I would like to add that I didn't need shouts of "Woo-Woo-woo" throughout, and "N*gga, get da F*ck off the stage", because they didn't really add to the ceremony.

[Libertarian Hippie]

What a bunch of sissies.