A Very Costly Kiss: Senior Denied Diploma
by Mike Krumboltz

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.



If I were this kids parent somebody would get their ass beat.

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Good thing you're not that kids parent, otherwise you would be asking someone to bail you out.

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Well actually if I were this kids parent id have read the policy and there would have been a school change long before we got to 12th grade.

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The kid blew the kiss too soon. He should have waited until AFTER the diploma was in hand. Public schools are funded at the point of a gun...anyone want to tackle that one?

Yes, they're also operated by the largest mob family in history, one that would put the largest of actual mafia to shame, especially seeing as how they some one got the government to legitimize them.

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There was also the case of the not guilty T shirt. I believe 2 or 3 kids were expelled and not allowed to graduate in that incident. Being a smart alec has it's consequences, although not being allowed to graduate is pretty harsh.

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We must protect the children, from themselves, but not from teachers that are into pedophilia. After all, the union protects its own.

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