One girl causes a ruckus merely by walking across the stage at graduation:
A pregnant student who was banned from graduation at her Roman Catholic high school announced her own name and walked across the stage anyway at the close of the program. Alysha Cosby's decision prompted cheers and applause Tuesday from many of her fellow seniors at St. Jude Educational Institute. But her mother and aunt were escorted out of the church by police after Cosby headed back to her seat."I can't believe something like this is happening in 2005," said her mother, Sheila Cosby. "My daughter has been through a lot and I am proud of her. She deserved to walk, and she did"...
The father of Cosby's child, also a senior at the school, was allowed to participate in graduation.
Another girl mouths off against no-drinking rules - and suffers the consequences:
Shawnda Lawson, 18, told The Frederick News-Post earlier this month that she had refused to sign a pledge that she wouldn't drink -- and she told the paper she likes drinking. After the story was published, Lawson said she was told by her principal she was banned from the prom and was an embarrassment to the school.Her father, Timothy Lawson, told The Associated Press that he doesn't believe Shawnda drinks. And he said the school's principal shouldn't have punished his daughter for something she reportedly said.
And a third girl pisses her boyfriend's mother off something fierce:
For a mother who remembered the senior superlatives in her own high school yearbook hewing to "Most Likely to Succeed" and "Best Smile," the picture came as a surprise to Jacqueline Nobles.In Boynton Beach High's 2005 yearbook, her son, Robert Richards, is shown with a leash around his neck. Students voting on superlatives — a staple of yearbooks for decades — elected Richards as "Most Whipped" by his girlfriend, using the slang term for a person who is controlled by another in a relationship. The accompanying photo shows Richards, who is black, on a leash held by Melissa Finley, who is white.
Nobles wants the books recalled.
"I know it's supposed to be in fun, but there are people still having trouble with African-Americans' past and this will be offensive," said Nobles, who said the picture reminded her of the poster for the 1970s miniseries Roots, which featured a manacled slave. "This picture, to me, is very distasteful."
You think? Did not one adult leaf through the annual before it went to press? And I don't care if they're smiling, I don't like the photo for, "Most Likely To Be On Jerry Springer," either.
Posted by kswygert at May 18, 2005 08:36 PM