School official presses charges for cheering at graduation

[Jeff]

This is so cool !!! Have ya ever been to a Graduation, the officials ask you to please hold your applause until all names have been called, but when one of the popular kids come up their family & friends scream like they are a bunch of mental patients, and it never fails the kid is popular because he/she is the class clown and they usually wind up in a dead end job ( flipping burgers ) or in jail, but heck they are one of the smart ones from the family, they actually got a HS diploma, yup the folks that usually do the screaming are Trash White or Trash Black. The same people that at a little league baseball game go to barking like dogs when the kid they came to watch gets up to bat, and I don't mean a teenagers game, I have watched this where the kids are 5 and 6 years old. I think it is great that this school system finally took one of these idiots and charged them, now how is she going to pay the fine, I guess she will have to wait for the graduate to get a job to pay the fine for her.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Ursula Miller knew that when she shouted her niece's name after she received her diploma at a north Mississippi high school graduation, she would probably be asked to leave the arena.



But she never expected Senatobia school district Superintendent Jay Foster, who instructed spectators to hold their cheers until after all students graduated, would file criminal charges against her.
Miller, a resident of the 8,000-person town 30 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee, is one of three people facing misdemeanor charges of disturbing the peace following the May 21 Senatobia High School graduation.
"I understood as a consequence I was going to be escorted out of the graduation, but no one told me there were going to be criminal charges against me," Miller, 45, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday.

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[Kathianne]

I have to say that the high school my kids went to, this didn't happen. The screaming and bullhorns though did during university graduations and that was very rude. Each time, the administration would introduce the speakers, then ask for no disruptions until the last graduate's name was read-not respected.

I wish that the principals, chancellors, etc., would all take the stand this leader has taken. All the graduates' families deserve to hear their graduate's name called out by the speaker. Right now, fining seems the only way it will happen.

I also think that all balloons, bouquets of flowers should be banned. Leave them in the car!

[darin]

If this citation is not dismissed, I hope the family sues and gets MILLIONS. Crock of horse crap. There is no legal standing to 'please hold applause' that NOT a statute. Also - I doubt anyone can prove peace was measurably disrupted.

[tailfins]

From conversations at support groups, I learned that adverse action for no apparent reason is part of everyday life for people with Autism/Aspergers. Many of them would laugh at a story like this thinking it was good to see the other half experience what we experience. Thanks to listening to Rush Limbaugh, I learned to remember that seeing others worse off doesn't make you better off. I hope the system isn't too hard on them. However, deferred adjudication pending completion of social skills classes might be in order.

[Jeff]

If this citation is not dismissed, I hope the family sues and gets MILLIONS. Crock of horse crap. There is no legal standing to 'please hold applause' that NOT a statute. Also - I doubt anyone can prove peace was measurably disrupted.

dmp I am not sure of the legality of it, but when your kids go to graduate and all is quiet until one name is called and then a pack of folks go crazy you will realize how disgusting it is, let alone if your child may of been next in line and you missed his/her name called due to the screaming of the idiots.

[darin]

dmp I am not sure of the legality of it, but when your kids go to graduate and all is quiet until one name is called and then a pack of folks go crazy you will realize how disgusting it is, let alone if your child may of been next in line and you missed his/her name called due to the screaming of the idiots.

I'm the guy who 'woohoo!'s when my kids are called across stage. I don't care about things like that.

[Jeff]

I'm the guy who 'woohoo!'s when my kids are called across stage. I don't care about things like that.

I hear ya, so the hell with anyone else that might want to hear their kids called, yup all is good.

[darin]

I hear ya, so the hell with anyone else that might want to hear their kids called, yup all is good.

That doesn't make sense to me. When they call my kid's name I say "Woohoo!" that somehow prevents other parents from hearing the next name?

That's a HUGE jump, Jeff.

[Jeff]

That doesn't make sense to me. When they call my kid's name I say "Woohoo!" that somehow prevents other parents from hearing the next name?

That's a HUGE jump, Jeff.

Darin we are talking apples and oranges I believe, I am talking about the uproar that disrupts the entire graduation ( bull horns, Barking, just being obnoxious ) A family that yells a name well that still is breaking the rule or at least not doing as asked, but what pisses me off is the folks that go crazy.

Somehow I didn't figure you fit into that category.

[darin]

Darin we are talking apples and oranges I believe, I am talking about the uproar that disrupts the entire graduation ( bull horns, Barking, just being obnoxious ) A family that yells a name well that still is breaking the rule or at least not doing as asked, but what pisses me off is the folks that go crazy.

Somehow I didn't figure you fit into that category.

Thanks for clarifying because your first reply to my comment suggested I think 'to hell with other parents'

Did you see the 'offense'? The parents said something like "You did it, baby!!"

That's not a problem and nobody was hurt by it.

[jimnyc]

Here's what irks me about the story:

"I understood as a consequence I was going to be escorted out of the graduation, but no one told me there were going to be criminal charges against me," Miller, 45, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday.

So she knew already that she would be tossed from the graduation. Why push buttons? Why purposely get yourself escorted out of something that is for the KIDS, not for her to make a spectacle and fight against what she didn't like? I think it's a dumb rule too, but it's the schools right to do so, and they applied it to all attendees. I don't think I agree with criminal charges.... but obviously the threat of being tossed out wasn't enough of a deterrent.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

dmp I am not sure of the legality of it, but when your kids go to graduate and all is quiet until one name is called and then a pack of folks go crazy you will realize how disgusting it is, let alone if your child may of been next in line and you missed his/her name called due to the screaming of the idiots.

So true, Riza just graduated her college course a couple weeks ago, her name could not be heard because either the continued cheering the black girl preceding her and walking away or else the black girl walking behind her caused prolonged, and disruptive cheering for a couple minutes.
Myself when its that damn over the top those guilty should be dealt with in some way.
THAT GRADUATION THE RUDENESS CAME PRIMARILY FROM ONE SOURCE -ONE GROUP. ALL ATTENDING HAD BEEN ASKED TO WAIT UNTIL ALL NAMES WERE CALLED OUT... Call me racist but those that did the worse yelling and longest yelling out were black. Reality may bite but its reality.
And disrespect is still disrespect regardless of who is guilty of doing it.
Why my son never heard his mothers name called is because some people(individuals or group) thinks civility /respectful norms do not apply to them.
Our son missed out on that moment because of the extremely selfish and disruptive acts of those that think civility doesn't apply in their case and they are so ffing special that others should ignore their arrogant and/or stupid actions. . -Tyr

[Noir]

What law exactly was broken?

Also i would think that if someones name is called out, and there is a ruckus, it falls in part to the speaker to withhold from continuing with names until there is quiet.

[Kathianne]

What law exactly was broken?

Also i would think that if someones name is called out, and there is a ruckus, it falls in part to the speaker to withhold from continuing with names until there is quiet.

That might work at most HS graduations, but not universities-with several thousand graduates. As it is, the ceremony last hours. Once the rude people start, they continue to be noisy, they heard "Their kid's name" to hell with those that follow.

The graduation ceremony should be dignified, fine at the end that the graduates go a bit crazy and everyone applauds. The 'proud family' should have their raucous celebration at their own party, following the ceremony.

[Noir]

That might work at most HS graduations, but not universities-with several thousand graduates. As it is, the ceremony last hours. Once the rude people start, they continue to be noisy, they heard "Their kid's name" to hell with those that follow.

If someone is causing a continued disturbance then they should be asked to leave.

The graduation ceremony should be dignified, fine at the end that the graduates go a bit crazy and everyone applauds. The 'proud family' should have their raucous celebration at their own party, following the ceremony.

And the dignity of this ceremony should be informed by law?