When Rock Hill school officials tell commencement crowds to hold their applause until the end, they mean it — police arrested seven people after they
were accused of loud cheering during the ceremonies.
That's the old school spirit!
Kudos to Rock Hill for realistically preparing their inmates for the role they'll be expected to play when released into the general population.
Obedience to authority is important, whether you're part of the managed herd, or if you're an "Only One" entrusted with a prod and relied on to follow orders.
[Via Cigar Rollers]
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And the other hundreds of people allowed these arrests?
Well, the time of public officials and law enforcement officers is valuable. All those interruptions to show respect for other proles and peons, it's just doubleplusungood.
I don;t know where Rock Hill is, but I thiink it would be a good place to be away from.
It speaks ill of the American people that the cops were not themselves cuffed and stuffed, along with the principal of the school.
But it's not too late. The residents of Rock Hill could and should redeem themselves and reassert their citizenship. If that requires the application of force and the visitation of injury on the malefactors, then it is earned and should be the expected response of a free people.
My bet, is though, that they will accept their chains and be thankful they had no joy to celebrate so they didn't get in trouble.
The whole damn auditorium should have emptied and stopped this bullshit.
OK folks, let me present the other side of this. I don't know about Rock Hills exact circumstances, but I've seen the changes in the 40years since I graduated. In 1966 graduation was a solemn occasion with the audience attending being well dressed, well behaved, and no one would have dared wear a hat in the "house". There was some applause when warranted. Otherwise any loud behavior waited until the graduates were outside after marching out with their diplomas, and it was the graduates only. In 1978 we attended the last graduation for some time and the occasion at that time was still solumn and well behaved. We have attended several graduations for a son and relatives since 2000. What a change!! At the beginning the superintendent states that this is a solumn occasion honoring the graduates and asks to hold outbursts and applause until afterward and to please remove hats. Lot of good that does. Many parents and relatives come to these graduations dressed and acting like pigs. Many are dirty, unkept, wearing dirty tank tops, dirty hats, flip flops on dirty feet, ragged cutoffs, and a whole host of other inapproprite attire. Try watching the ceremonies with three wide brim hats right in front of you. Applause is one thing, but yelling, screaming, and loud whistling for accomplishments is another. Everytime we've attended a graduation during this roudy behavior I have thought to myself that if I were the superintendent I would announce at the beginning that hats are to be removed while indoors and that anyone demonstrating any roudy behavior will be removed from the premises immediately and I would make it stick. We often speak about how liberals and the anti-gun advocates cannot control themselves and are not rational. Why can't the average citizen citizen control themselves for the apx. one and one half hours it takes for a graduation ceremony? Cannot the average citizen present a good example to graduates that there is a time and place for solemn behavior? Some of these graduations remind me of the roudy church services at Obambie's church in Chicago with Jeremiah Wright and Snuffy Pfleger. With parents and relatives acting like idiots no wonder many of the youth of this nation are aimless and act like idiots themselves. It has been mentioned on this and other sites about how schools are turning out Marxists. We complain about how schools are ruthless for minor infractions having anything to do with firearms. My wife is a teacher and I can guarantee you there is absolutely no discipline in school for threatening or assaulting a teacher. There is absolutely no discipline for even a minor dress code. Just in case you might think we are liberals, my wife is a CCW instructor and I hold an FFL. I detest the way government has taken control of our lives, but numbnuts that can't control themselves for 90 minutes need a little discipline.
I've certainly been to my last graduation. Far too many were acting like idiots there. Absolutely not the slightest bit of manners or respect for the repeated requests to honor the gravity of the occasion.
There was a group of morons who screamed to high heaven as my own son's name was called. But no one could hear it because it was completely lost in the noise made by these jackasses.
You want to hoop and holler? Go to the damn football game.
I said, "Everytime we've attended a graduation during this roudy behavior I have thought to myself that if I were the superintendent I would announce at the beginning that hats are to be removed while indoors and that anyone demonstrating any roudy behavior will be removed from the premises immediately and I would make it stick".
Let me be clear, for adults that can't control themselves for 90 minutes during a solumn occasion my "making it stick" means "whatever it takes" to get the point across. If that means an arrest with a $1,000 fine or a pole axing, SO BE IT!!!!
I went to my 5 year-old granddaughter's dance recital a couple of weeks ago, and it was virtually the same scenario described by AgPilot. An entire auditorium full of parents, grandparents, friends, and relatives gathered to watch as classes of girls from age 3 to 18 performed various dance routines they had learned throughout the year. I quickly overdosed on cuteness.
A group of about 10 or 12 young adults and teens began to whoop and scream as their friends took the stage, and it went on for 15 minutes. A man whom I later found out was the husband of the dance school owner began collecting men from the audience, including me, and after 20-some of us got together and surrounded the yahoos, he informed them that this was a dance recital, not a wrestling match. He then offered to escort them out if they felt that they couldn't control their exuberance.
He actually used the word "exuberance." There were a lot of confused faces. They decided to shut up.
He didn't call cops, he didn't use threats, and he offered them a choice. Very civilized, I thought. Public shame used to be a very effective deterrent to boorish behavior, and it still can be if the whole village gets together.
"and after 20-some of us got together and surrounded the yahoos"
For the graduations that I've been to since 2000 you couldn't find 20 that weren't participating in the "boorish behavior" nor could you find enough with the backbone to stand up for what's right. The way the husband of the owner handled it was terrific provided you could find enough upstanding citizens to pull it off.
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