A Very Costly Kiss: Senior Denied Diploma
Posted By: sm on 2009-06-18
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For teens, there is no greater joy than graduating high school. Shaking off the shackles of education and claiming that hard-fought diploma is truly an epic day. Unfortunately, for several students at Bonny Eagle High School in Maine, their natural exuberance has led to some surprisingly serious problems.
On Friday night, when the senior class was waiting to graduate, excitement began to grow. Students bounced a large inflatable rubber duck. The noise level rose. And then came "the kiss." When called, one student walked on stage to receive his diploma and blew a kiss to his family. The school administrator, clearly not the sentimental sort, sent the student back to his seat ... sans diploma.
The seemingly harsh punishment has sent the Web all aflutter. Searches on "student denied diploma" and "bonny eagle high school" are both through the roof. Additionally, blogs and news papers are chiming in with opinions on whether or not the administration overreacted. The student's mother has given interviews and is quite upset at her son's treatment. According to an article from Fox News the outraged mother said, "A bow, a kiss to your mom is not misbehavior."
But the administrators feel they were just enforcing the rules that students agreed to. At a meeting following the debacle, school superintendent Suzanne Lukas said that "if a student doesn't adhere to the expectations, then the consequences are clearly spelled out."
This isn't the first time that rambunctious (dare we say "fun"?) behavior affected a graduation ceremony at Bonny Eagle. "Four years ago we had some issues with silly string and beach balls," said Lukas.
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Never did rings for self or for kids. Diploma is what counts. The
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That seems costly (sm)
That seems costly, but maybe that's because my Iowan cost of living is pretty cheap. With pantry items and fresh stuff from the grocery store I can cook food for about 1/2 that cost per day.
I think any plan cannot be too bad as weight loss is acheived healthfully and definitely if it is not via surgery. (IMO!)
The stuff is costly by SoFla standards too, Apple.
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Students Denied Hot Lunch Until Money Paid
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — Forget pizza, hamburgers and macaroni and cheese.
Dozens of students at Steamboat Springs schools are getting peanuts, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches — or nothing — for lunch this week after the district cut off those with unpaid balances on their school lunch accounts.
Nutritional Services director Max Huppert says students owing $6 or more were not allowed to use the district's automated payment system to buy hot lunches when they returned to school Monday. The move affected about 25 elementary students and an unknown number of middle school students.
The affected elementary school students were given snack food instead, but the others received nothing.
Huppert says about half of the nearly $10,000 owed to the district has since been paid.
Dying girl denied more time with imprisoned father - please sign the petition (sm)
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Have-Mercy-on-Jayci
This child is 10 years old - this is national news, not a hoax of any kind. This child was healthy six months ago and now has very limited time to live. Her father is imprisoned and her dying wish is to spend more time with him - which is being denied. Please go to the above website and sign the petition asking the Nebraska prison system to honor her request.
Kiss!
XXX OOO
Wotta face.
Go Here if you are a Senior, if not
go here and have fun anyway or pass along to a senior. Especially like the stress relieving elastic baby. Please scroll down
I wish my husband still liked to kiss like that...
We've only been married for a year and he's quit doing all that stuff.
Oh, I just wanna hug and kiss both of them! You
obviously enjoy, love and respect them. . . and they are dressed so beautifully!!
With a kiss and hug good-bye...
That ship has, sadly, sailed and too many lives would be disrupted, perhaps even destroyed, by acting on these impulses.
I think perhaps both of you are hitting a mid-life crises and reuniting would be a way of bringing back your youth.
But doing that would also bring heartache to MANY.
Sometimes it's easier to let the ship sail than to climb aboard, but it's the best thing to do for everyone, even you. You'll only end up hurt and having hurt many others.
*HUG*
Oh BTW, am considered senior so
noticed how you signed and am sure probably older by lots of years than you!!
Senior portraits
I'm just now looking into senior portrait options for my daughter, and am having a really difficult time trying to choose a photographer. I have narrowed it down to 3 studios. The one that has pretty decent package prices also has a very high session fee, or at least I think it is rather high. Her session fee is $125, compared to a $40 fee with one studio, and another with no session fee at all. I guess the difference is that she does spend about 2 hours with the senior, and she also drives them to a friend's house who has an absolutely beautiful outdoor setting to work with. She said she stops at a pizza place along the way to give the kids a break and treats them to a snack. The studio with the $40 session fee has higher priced packages with fewer photos in them. I am leaning more towards using this lady, but the sitting fee is bothering me a bit. Is $125 reasonable for a session fee for senior pics?
Senior portraits
The $125 is just the sitting fee. However, I'm looking at around $350 to $400 by the time I'm done choosing the portraits and whatever extras we decide to go with. I'm okay with paying for the portraits. It's just the session fee that I'm curious about...just wondering if that is a typical charge for a session fee. I guess it could also depend on the area you live in though.
senior gifts
Not sure why, but a senior once told me they love getting writing paper and postage stamps.
Sean wants to kiss the presidents
crown and I do not like him at all. If a person calls in and he does not agree, the person is so rudely cut off. I like the way Alan handles him, cuts him off like he should be. To me he definitely is NOT a great American, get so tired of hearing that crap.
I went to school with a Candy Kiss = sm
She dropped out of school in 10th grade and married a man whose last name was Kowalski.
Do you and Hubby/So Go into that Embrace & Kiss?
LIKE YA DID WHEN YA WERE COURTIN'?
Yall remember those kisses and hugs they were hot back then!
yall still have that passion or do you remember or have you forgotton lol?
My first day of college. He was a senior, I was a freshman.
We didn't date until the end of my sophomore year and after he had graduated, but we were part of the same circle of friends. When I first met him, he was listening to a transister radio with a single earpiece. (Anyone remember those?) He was waiting to hear when Led Zeppelin concert tickets were going on sale.
We've been married 23 years, and are still going strong. (And our youngest child will be attending that same university in the fall.)
I am some years your senior, but still young looking and seem to SM
be attractive to men. However, I found that men felt they had been there, done that. . . and the only thing they were missing was what you pointed out. I literally met a man who was married and divorced five times. Thanks, but no thanks. For me he HAS to be a nonsmoker, very occasional drinker, etc.
My sister and I agree that after we were with a man a time or two it already became quite evident why he is divorced. I know this is not always the case, but very often it is. I met a man one time, and I must respect this, who told me sadly that he had the most wonderful woman in the world and he cheated on her and lost her. He said he takes 100% responsibility for the breakup. He said it was the worst mistake he ever made in his life. There are exceptions to every rule, but more often than not I found the ones who were looking for one thing and had no desire to begin again and have a future with someone.
I have a 17 year old daughter, a senior.
She actually doesn't ask to be out during the school week. She's in drama club and working on college applications and homework. If she did ask, I think as long as her homework was done I'd probably let her be out until about 9:00. Her bedtime isn't until 11, but she needs the wind-down time. Weekends, it's midnight.
How old is the child? First grade or senior in
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First day of college. I was a freshman and he was a senior.
We didn't pay too much attention to each other, to be honest, but we ran in the same crowd of friends. I kept running into him at parties and bars (back when the legal drinking age was 18 and I could hang out in a bar as a teenager.) We eventually took serious notice of each other and started dating. We've been married 24 years, and occasionally we still go to the pub and have a drink or two.
L x H x W divided by size of hershey's kiss
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peanut butter kiss cookies
I sent you an e-mail. Sorry mine didn't go through:( Good luck and have fun!!
They have a RULE about not blowing a kiss to your family?! nm
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senior citizens babysity toddlers
Dear toddler hater,
A while back someone got the idea that all those people in the nursing home should be playing with all those kids in daycare! Guess what! It did not work! Why? Because old people were jealous of the kids. So the great american experiment failed and now the old people sit in their diapers alone and the kids get to go the movies with their moms while their dads are in Iraq!
Sincerely,
Defender of yucky, loud toddlers.
That was me my senior year of high school.
Since kindergarten for me, I was always above average in school. I was always on the Honor Roll. I always did my homework. I always cared about my grades. In 9th, 10th and 11th grades I still cared. I was in the National Honor Society and still making As and Bs. If I made a C, I was crushed. Then my senior year of high school, something changed. Keep in mind, that the summer before my senior year, my dear Aunt passed away suddenly and we were very close. That year, it seemed like I just stopped caring. The classes I were in had none of my friends. My lunch period had none of my friends. I just usually stayed in the library during lunch. That was the 1st semester. I still did my work and tried to do good. Then the 2nd semester hit and I really stopped caring. I quit doing any school work and that was HIGHLY unusual for me. I was just so sick of school. In March with only 2 or 3 months to go til graduation, I dropped out. All my teachers called because they were just so shocked because I had always been such a good student. The counselors came out to my house and talked with my mom and thought I had social anxiety, but I wouldn't talk to them. I don't know what happened. I just knew that I hated school with a passion and couldn't bear going anymore. I spent like a year wasting around and then I knew I had to get my diploma. So I went to the community college and got my GED. And then I went on to college and got my Associate's. I think that nowadays, they just make school so aggravating and hard for kids. There are horrible teachers who don't care. They depend so much on students passing these end of grade tests instead of going by their grades throughout the year. Such as my cousin for ex., she in in 5th grade and had ADHD. She is in a special class. So far this year, she has made only 1 C. The school sent out a letter half way through the year saying she is in danger of failing. Now, does that make any sense? No. She does great in school but on those end of grade tests, she just does not do good. So, if she fails the end of grade testing, even if she was on the Honor Roll throughout the whole year, she fails her grade. That is NOT fair. The school systems are just stupid i think. I think a lot of kids, once they get to high school, are just so sick of school and how things are, they just don't want to care anymore. I am sure your son will get over this slump. But with me, I dropped out but I still ended up with a diploma and going to college, so I am sure he will turn out fine.
I disagree - just because you aren't married doesn't mean you can kiss whoever you want (sm)
not if you are in a committed relationship. Now i agree that Helio's kiss was part of the show and don't have an opinion on that. But what you are saying about him having every right to kiss another woman if he wants - I strongly disagree with that. He was engaged. Even if they were just in a committed relationship he wouldn't have that right. Too many germs out there for one thing! It may not be new but it's still not right.
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