News that will make Non mad...

[exploited]

Yeah, agreed. Let the school record show that they didn't have any graduating seniors for an entire year. Have fun with that.

[Philly]

[The Dharma Bum]

this is ridiculous.

who cares if they throw their hats? isn't that a tradition?

"NOT ON MY WATCH!!!!"

[exploited]

[The Dharma Bum]

we're really taking the safety and security thing way too far nowadays

[eynon81]

[eynon81]

[eynon81]

[Professor]

I doubt that a school can withhold the diplomas. Or, perhaps they can refuse to release the piece of paper, but they will have to acknowledge that they graduated. There is an implied contract that, if the student completes coursework in a satisfactory manner, the student will graduate.

Let's put this another way. A student who fights with another student and gets suspended will still receive a diploma and graduate. And, we're supposed to believe that the school is going to be able to withhold diplomas for throwing hats?

My school (private, Catholic) tried to do this, too. They said we wouldn't get our diplomas (the rolled up things they handed us weren't diplomas) if we threw our hats. Guess what, most of us threw them anyway. The principal (a nun) got pissed. But, the parents loved it. And, since it was a private school that relies solely upon parents ponying up money every year for tuition, they gave us our diplomas.

[Mo~]

BYU denied a diploma to the guy who created the "Mormons on a Mission" calendar a few years ago. It had pics of returned missionaries posing shirtless.