What's so freaking hard about this concept?

 

I attended a graduation recently where this announcement was made. My son and I then had an over/under on how many kid's names would be called before someone's family made a horse's rear of themselves. I had 4. I was way too high.

 

One family even brought a freaking drum and beat on it when their graduate was called.

 

Why can't people refrain from showing their ignorance?

I completely agree. I have been to many graduations where this has happened. When my son graduated, I could barely see him for the people that were standing and trying to leave once their child's name was called. (and those darn air horns are the worse) Simply, lack of respect for those around you.

Have you guys had the experience of the kids graduating showing themselves? A few of the graduations I've went to have had kids dancing across the stage, strutting, or making some kind of gesture.

 

One kid grabbed his diploma, jumped off the stage and "flipped" everyone off on his way out (he was caught by the police at the doors).

 

Sadly, graduation can be a joke now a days. You would think the kids and especially the adults would know how important of an event it is.

 

As for the applause they should probably hold it, but most of the graduations I've been to, they principal or superintendent just waited a few seconds to call the next graduates name because they knew how people would act. And actually for some it is a reason to celebrate. Alot of kids parents didn't graduate, maybe most of their families didn't graduate and this is extremely important to them. I wish it wasn't an issue but it can be.

Have you guys had the experience of the kids graduating showing themselves? A few of the graduations I've went to have had kids dancing across the stage, strutting, or making some kind of gesture.

 

One kid grabbed his diploma, jumped off the stage and "flipped" everyone off on his way out (he was caught by the police at the doors).

 

Sadly, graduation can be a joke now a days. You would think the kids and especially the adults would know how important of an event it is.

 

As for the applause they should probably hold it, but most of the graduations I've been to, they principal or superintendent just waited a few seconds to call the next graduates name because they knew how people would act. And actually for some it is a reason to celebrate. Alot of kids parents didn't graduate, maybe most of their families didn't graduate and this is extremely important to them. I wish it wasn't an issue but it can be.

 

My parents never went to college. They didn't lose their minds when I graduated. So, I don't buy the "the kid is doing something the family never did " thinking.

 

Secondly, why would the kid who flipped off the crowd be grabbed by the police?

I think the phrase, "Hold your applause to the end" is ignorance, IMO. Graduating from high school or college is something to be celebrating. There is nothing wrong with a quick yell for someone. I firmly believe this.

 

I know the counterarguement of "wasting to much time", but if you were at NKU's graduation this past Saturday, you wouldn't use that as an arguement cause it was smooth even with tons of cheers.

My parents never went to college. They didn't lose their minds when I graduated. So, I don't buy the "the kid is doing something the family never did " thinking.

 

Secondly, why would the kid who flipped off the crowd be grabbed by the police?

 

To be honest with you I don't know what came out of that. I don't really know if anything was illegal really, just immature. I think they may have just made him leave. Don't know. I've seen some crazy stuff at graduations.

As a high school teacher, this makes me cringe. Graduation is a time to celebrate, but making fools of yourself by hooping/hollaring/air horns/idiot comments are not the way to do that. The problem is, once one does it, the next group has to feel like they have to do more, because their guy is more important.

 

BTW, I, too, firmly believe this.

 

Last summer I attended my brother's graduation after completing his MBA. Unfortunately, it was my family that did the "celebrating." It ruined the event for me.

As a high school teacher, this makes me cringe. Graduation is a time to celebrate, but making fools of yourself by hooping/hollaring/air horns/idiot comments are not the way to do that. The problem is, once one does it, the next group has to feel like they have to do more, because their guy is more important.

 

BTW, I, too, firmly believe this.

 

Last summer I attended my brother's graduation after completing his MBA. Unfortunately, it was my family that did the "celebrating." It ruined the event for me.

 

You are exactly right. One group influences the other group to top them. It's sad really.

Is it just me, or do they always do their best to make you as uncomfortable as possible during a graduation ceremony?

 

I mean think about it: they give you an uncomfortable gown that retains plenty of body heat, you are dressed up underneath further adding to discomfort(at least for men as we tend to wear MORE when we dress up), then they give you NO space between you and the person next to you not even taking into account that the seats are usually small and uncomfortable anyway, then some pompous waste of space with some tangential connection to your school if you are lucky, gives a speech and hits you with the fallacious line "I know how much people hate long speeches so I will keep mine short," knowing full well they intend to waste the next 30-60 minutes of your life telling you something you really don't give a rat's patoot about. Of course there is always the chance that you may end up getting a jazz band made up of professors from the music department who are disgruntled that they went into teaching music instead of performing. In their infinite wisdom and dissatisfaction at their own lives they decide that they too are going to waste more of your time because there is no chance you are going to walk out in the middle of their performance. If you are lucky then you won't get stuck with at least one to two more speeches.

 

Either way I think I would rather spend the two hours, again if you are lucky, in surgery. Think about it, it is nice and cool and you are in a clean room. Sure you may be less then clothed, but when they start pumping the anesthetic in your veins, what does it matter to you? Shoot, they could cut a certain part of my body off and re-attach it for all I care at that point in time as long as everything worked fine when I woke up.

 

I would STILL rather that than a graduation ceremony. My doctor is there to do his job, not sit there and feed me the generic lineabout how "special" this class is and how "blessed" they were to have had us there. What they are really saying at that point in time is; "Thank you for suffering and not complaining too much while we hiked your tuition so we could spend money on projects that no one on campus actually wants except the President of the University."

 

For crying out loud, at least at a hospital I am unconscious during a surgery. If they could give me an anesthetic prior to a graduation ceremony, I think it could be a moderately enjoyable experience.

 

 

When I get through pharmacy school I don't think I plan on walking unless coerced into it by family.

Edited May 13, 200917 yr by PepRock01

I've attended a few graduation ceremonies. It has been my observation that the families that made the most noise were related to the kids that were, throughout their high-school careers, least likely to graduate.

Is it just me, or do they always do their best to make you as uncomfortable as possible during a graduation ceremony?

 

I mean think about it: they give you an uncomfortable gown that retains plenty of body heat, you are dressed up underneath further adding to discomfort(at least for men as we tend to wear MORE when we dress up), then they give you NO space between you and the person next to you not even taking into account that the seats are usually small and uncomfortable anyway, then some pompous waste of space with some tangential connection to your school if you are lucky, gives a speech and hits you with the fallacious line "I know how much people hate long speeches so I will keep mine short," knowing full well they intend to waste the next 30-60 minutes of your life telling you something you really don't give a rat's patoot about. Of course there is always the chance that you may end up getting a jazz band made up of professors from the music department who are disgruntled that they went into teaching music instead of performing. In their infinite wisdom and dissatisfaction at their own lives they decide that they too are going to waste more of your time because there is no chance you are going to walk out in the middle of their performance. If you are lucky then you won't get stuck with at least one to two more speeches.

 

Either way I think I would rather spend the two hours, again if you are lucky, in surgery. Think about it, it is nice and cool and you are in a clean room. Sure you may be less then clothed, but when they start pumping the anesthetic in your veins, what does it matter to you? Shoot, they could cut a certain part of my body off and re-attach it for all I care at that point in time as long as everything worked fine when I woke up.

 

I would STILL rather that than a graduation ceremony. My doctor is there to do his job, not sit there and feed me the generic lineabout how "special" this class is and how "blessed" they were to have had us there. What they are really saying at that point in time is; "Thank you for suffering and not complaining too much while we hiked your tuition so we could spend money on projects that no one on campus actually wants except the President of the University."

 

For crying out loud, at least at a hospital I am unconscious during a surgery. If they could give me an anesthetic prior to a graduation ceremony, I think it could be a moderately enjoyable experience.

 

 

When I get through pharmacy school I don't think I plan on walking unless coerced into it by family.

 

This is why I chose not to attend graduation for my undergraduate and masters degrees.

My parents never went to college. They didn't lose their minds when I graduated. So, I don't buy the "the kid is doing something the family never did " thinking.

 

Secondly, why would the kid who flipped off the crowd be grabbed by the police?

 

For performing an obscene gesture. Obscenity laws are based on the morals of an area or a setting. What is obscene in one area of the country may not be in another. But in a very rural setting with a dozen baptist preachers in the crowd, flipping them off would be considered obscene, thus resulting in a misdemeanor arrest. Any lawyers or police officers that are in the know, correct me if I am wrong, but I am pretty sure this is how it is.

Edited May 14, 200917 yr by rockmom
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I've attended a few graduation ceremonies. It has been my observation that the families that made the most noise were related to the kids that were, throughout their high-school careers, least likely to graduate.

 

I feel you on that one MC:lol:.

My parents never went to college. They didn't lose their minds when I graduated. So, I don't buy the "the kid is doing something the family never did " thinking.

 

Kinda narrow minded, don't you think? :idunno: To some people, graduating college, or even high school, is a HUGE ordeal. A simple applause, or holler, never hurt anyone. Yeah, there will always be a family or two that go a little too far, but does it really hurt anyone?

Kinda narrow minded, don't you think? :idunno: To some people, graduating college, or even high school, is a HUGE ordeal. A simple applause, or holler, never hurt anyone. Yeah, there will always be a family or two that go a little too far, but does it really hurt anyone?

 

Very good points. I guess to each his own.