Quote Originally Posted by sparks19

After 18 their mistakes are their own.... before 18 (mature or not) their mistakes are still your responsibility so you should do whatever you can to get to the bottom of their behaviour. Did the mother go about it the right way? Maybe she did maybe she didn't... we weren't at the meeting. But to say she was just trying to get him out of paying any consequences is a little presumptuous wouldn't you say?

Graduation ceramonies are not the place to get into why the child
acted the way they did, it's a time for them to show their maturity and
decent manners at a public function. The time for learning how to act
in public has long passed by the age of 17 or18.

And I think it's a pretty safe assumpion to think the mother would do
anything she could to "protect" her child from being denied participation
in the public ceremony.