tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post8239651298073649851..comments2023-10-23T09:23:22.051-04:00Comments on Your Schools: March. Clap. Repeat.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-3209280522591275912013-06-13T15:40:37.967-04:002013-06-13T15:40:37.967-04:00Several years ago a local minister, pastor of one ...Several years ago a local minister, pastor of one of the Myers Park churches, wrote about attending his daughter's graduation from Myer's Park. His family had dressed up and followed the rules--no screaming and cheering, etc. However, the family in front of them apparently was rowdy and loud when their graduate received her degree. Their uproar prevented the next graduate's name from being heard. The minister wrote that at first he was upset but then decided that this family may have been celebrating their first family graduate. So he concluded that next year, when his next daughter graduated, perhaps his family should dress down and be a little more raucous so that poorer families would not feel out of place. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it--lower your standards so someone else doesn't feel bad (I doubt that the other family even noticed or cared that they were disrupting others). After all, that's what we've been doing in education for years. And we've had great results, haven't we?!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-19213855907854055232013-06-08T12:44:46.604-04:002013-06-08T12:44:46.604-04:00Interesting point of view. If you go to a CMS high...Interesting point of view. If you go to a CMS high school graduation you will see a few family members respectful of all as they call the names of the graduates and then you will see the "clowns of the circus" scream and yell to the extent that the next graduate's name cannot be heard. As an educator I have even witnessed fist fights between families and one year a student who did not graduate ran naked around the graduates as many spectators cheered thus turning the whole ceremony into a joke. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com