Banned from grad for senior prank

[sparks19]

Tonya, although I could not find the incident you were talking about I did find three other articles talking about high school pranks and vandalism. And it appears that being banned from attending the graduation ceremony is a common punishment for seniors who commit acts of vandalism within a certain time period of graduation, and that the students are made aware of that beforehand. So even if the student hadn't been in trouble before he certainly knew what the punishment would be if he got caught.

the whole premise of the argument was that there was no specific rule stating it would be punished by no grad. that was the big argument.

[Lady's Human]

People who go into education as a career generally don't try to live their life as a high school teacher or administrator.

I beg to differ. The majority of teachers in my high school who were excellent teachers, and were exactly where they wanted to be. While I have run across teachers who had negative attitudes, their attitudes had nothing to do with having failed at being anything else. They were just miserable individuals, period.

[Lady's Human]

ES, we agree?

MEIN GOTT!

[Barbara]

MEIN GOTT!

One language magazine asked its readers to supply examples of German words going into foreign languages. This would be a new example

BTW Germans would just with the same ironic accent say "Oh my god!"

[Lady's Human]

Barbara, two years in Germany tends to twist one's vocabulary.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Dios mios....back in my day...I took calculus in high school...

Do you know there are some societies that VALUE the knowledge acquired in life?

This makes me think of a story. My brother, who is 2 years older than me...had just gotten his driver's license. He told my mother that he was a better driver than she...because he had faster reflexes. She said she was the better driver because she had the wisdom and experience to avoid situations where she needed faster reflexes.

[ratdogg]

The majority of teachers in my high school who were excellent teachers, and were exactly where they wanted to be. While I have run across teachers who had negative attitudes, their attitudes had nothing to do with having failed at being anything else. They were just miserable individuals, period.

I'm talking about high school administrators....not teachers. The teachers are there to teach the kids to try and make a difference. The admins from my experience are unhappy failures.

There are many many MANY poor principals and superintendents. Its not far fetched to believe a human in this position would lose their self control and engage a teenager in a name calling and power trip fight.

[Lady's Human]

The same holds true for administrators. In EVERY job there are people who love the job, people who hate the job (minority who make it miserable for everyone), and people who do the job because it's all they know.

The majority of administrators are most likely quite capable people who enjoy their work, but the minority who don't are the ones who make the news.

As I've told people time and again, if you don't like your job, find another one and stop making it miserable for everyone else.