A Very Costly Kiss: Senior Denied Diploma

words fail me.
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face palm does not.
 
"Four years ago we had some issues with silly string and beach balls," said Lukas.

God forbid.

People take shit WAY too seriously these days. Graduation is supposed to be a fun memorable time in your life. And instead you're supposed to act like lemmings?

Fuck off.
 
graduating highschool... what a joke. I was glad to leave the place

administrators have obviously never achieved anything in their life and feel the need to take it out on someone 40 years younger than themselves
 
On another note, that school is very strict, to say the least.

This year's senior class wasn't bouncing beachballs, but eight foot long inflatable.... penises and sex dolls. That's right, you didn't misread it. Penises and sex dolls. Nobody got kicked out, but a handful of students did get high-fives from the principal!
 
anytime maine makes national news its for all the wrong reasons. remember the gay marriage fiasco?

jokes jokes
 
shit half of my class wouldn't have got a diploma, we had one kid cartwheel acrost the stage, one kid picked up an aminstrator and about a dozen kids kissed said adminstrator on the cheek
 
For teens, there is no greater joy than graduating high school. Shaking off the shackles of education and claiming that hard-fought diploma is truly an epic day. Unfortunately, for several students at Bonny Eagle High School in Maine, their natural exuberance has led to some surprisingly serious problems.

On Friday night, when the senior class was waiting to graduate, excitement began to grow. Students bounced a large inflatable rubber duck. The noise level rose. And then came "the kiss." When called, one student walked on stage to receive his diploma and blew a kiss to his family. The school administrator, clearly not the sentimental sort, sent the student back to his seat ... sans diploma.

The seemingly harsh punishment has sent the Web all aflutter. Searches on "student denied diploma" and "bonny eagle high school" are both through the roof. Additionally, blogs and news papers are chiming in with opinions on whether or not the administration overreacted. The student's mother has given interviews and is quite upset at her son's treatment. According to an article from Fox News the outraged mother said, "A bow, a kiss to your mom is not misbehavior."

But the administrators feel they were just enforcing the rules that students agreed to. At a meeting following the debacle, school superintendent Suzanne Lukas said that "if a student doesn't adhere to the expectations, then the consequences are clearly spelled out."

This isn't the first time that rambunctious (dare we say "fun"?) behavior affected a graduation ceremony at Bonny Eagle. "Four years ago we had some issues with silly string and beach balls," said Lukas.

 
hahahaha kid at graduation my year dropped his pants as he was shaking the principals hand, and still got a diploma
 
graduation is so boring....havent walked on my high school campus since i graduated and dont plan on it either
 
No worries, I was just trying to fix it so that people can watch the vid.

Here's my e-mail.

Ms. Lukas,

I would like to start off by saying that I am absolutely appalled at your behavior during the graduation ceremonies of Bonny Eagle High School. It is instances like this one that make me realize that I am losing faith in humanity.

I would like to know why you feel that you have the right to deny an 18-year-old his diploma? Is it because he ‘misbehaved’ during the ceremony? Or is it because we have come to live in an age where people take themselves way too seriously? I feel that you take yourself, and your job, too serious. You are the superintendent of a school district in Maine, not the President.

I’m sure you have seen the backlash of your actions on the Internet (if not, http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92681?fp=1 and http://www.wlky.com/education/19766393/detail.html ). In fact, I would have not known about this incident, was it not for the Internet. I live nowhere near you, and I felt compelled to write to you.

I’ll wrap this up – because I am sure that you have numerous other e-mails in your inbox.

"Four years ago we had some issues with silly string and beach balls," said Lukas. This quote was taken from the first link. To be honest, it sounds like you & I (and the rest of the population) have different views on the word ‘issues’. To me, an ‘issue’ is the ongoing wars overseas, or the struggling economy, or the contested election in Iran. NOT silly string and beach balls.

It seems to me that you have contradicted yourself. I think that you should have signed the statement agreeing not to misbehave, not the students. Get over yourself.

Regards,

Brian Tonelli

University of Vermont

School of Business Administration

btonelli@bsad.uvm.edu

 
thats probably the most fucking gay shit that ive ever heard, i would have gone apeshit on that stupid bitch ass cunt. how the fuck is that innapropriate
 
Probably nothing because her inbox is full of hundreds if not thousands of the same. I am sure that NS is not the first site to discover that address. As far as losing faith in humanity though, i disagree to a point. Yes, what happened is fucked up and stupid, but this kind of thing probably happened more in the past, we just didn't have the Internet so nobody knew, and the poor kid would not have seen justice (not that he has in this situation, but he probably will). Just because we are more exposed to fucked up things in the world doesn't mean they didn't exist before.
 
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