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Okay, here's your diploma

The five Galesburg High School students who were denied their diplomas due to cheering from the crowd now have their diplomas. (Students and parents had signed contracts stating that they would not make noise when the students walked across the stage.) Read More...

Crowd control

Five students didn't receive their diplomas because of cheers from the crowd as they walked across the stage in Galesburg, Illinois. Rules are rules, I guess, but this seems a bit excessive to me. About a month before the May 27 ceremony, Galesburg High Read More...

It's a tough world with or without Simon

Two items in the news seem to go together for me. One is the Irving School Board's decision to not allow students to participate in graduation ceremonies if they did not pass the TAKS. The other thing that sort of set wrong with me was Simon Cowell's Read More...