The Editor’s Two Cents
SVWeekly.com, June 12, 2008
(excerpt) That was the case at one area high school this year when a handful of seniors was denied the right to march with graduates. The school has yet to confirm or deny the report. Students were told diplomas would be mailed, but they would not march. To my knowledge, these were not students who had misbehaved, but simply would be granted diplomas for the length of time they spent at school; just short of the right credits to graduate, but apparently worthy enough to graduate. Someone wasn’t watching for “no child left behind” and no one noticed until it was too late that the proper credits weren’t achieved. Still they could graduate…but without the good memories. A quiet miss-step…overlooked and passed aside, but a sad habit of administrators everywhere looking only to move on and beyond errors that might mar the record.
(excerpt) That was the case at one area high school this year when a handful of seniors was denied the right to march with graduates. The school has yet to confirm or deny the report. Students were told diplomas would be mailed, but they would not march. To my knowledge, these were not students who had misbehaved, but simply would be granted diplomas for the length of time they spent at school; just short of the right credits to graduate, but apparently worthy enough to graduate. Someone wasn’t watching for “no child left behind” and no one noticed until it was too late that the proper credits weren’t achieved. Still they could graduate…but without the good memories. A quiet miss-step…overlooked and passed aside, but a sad habit of administrators everywhere looking only to move on and beyond errors that might mar the record.
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