Commie High Graduation '93 was quite insulting to me.  First of all we're not
some private school, and therefore the formal ticket takers were Bad and wrong 
to have.  The ticket takers are supposed to be N.H.S. Juniors.  The PRIORITY 
tickets just made the cermemony take longer.  The security guards made it seem
as bad as Huron's '92 Graduation.  And you don't want me even to get into that.
The reporter for the Ann Arbor News should have got there on time.  I find the
fact that he was stupid enough to show up late.  He also said we STARTED with
pomp and circumstance?  Yeah, just because he's not their for the prelude. 
Otherwise the Graduation ran smoothly.

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Commie is about a private school.  You have to sign up to get in there, etc..
I don't go there, but read the article today in the paper.  I wish we had
the freedom that you guys have.  It seems to me that you're just taking your
special school, and spitting in it's face.  Let me tell you.  If I had a
chance to go there, I'd leap out of my seat now, and go there.... But I don't.
I go to ypsi.  Don't treat what you have as crap.  You can come to ypsi for
a few days, and you will notice the difference.

He's criticizing the way the graduation ceremony was run, not the school
itself.  (I have a stepson in Community, and basically agree that it's a
fine school.)

It's a "alternative" high school.  So I'd expect it to have a alternative
graduation, also!

I love the school.  I happen to know Ypsi schools are hell, I have a hell of 
a lot of friends who attend schools in ypsi.  If we were a private school,
you'd have to pay to go to Commie.  Fortunatley, Commie is free therefore it is
not  private.  Last years graduation was still better, considering that it
started on time and everyone could get their seats without PRIORITY tickets. 
The sections for family were marked off with green ribbon so that the students
knew where  they aren't supposed to sit.   Commie is an often vadilised school,
and the  graffiti isn't bad as long as it isn't etched into the wall.  But know
people aren't only treating graduation like shit, they're treating the building
like shit.  Thats why I'm joining the school improvement committee.

It's their school.  Let them do what they want with it.  If you've got a 
huge problem with it, then you shouldn't be there then.  I'll take your
place.

Didn't he just say he loved the school?

Carlos -- who's in the 11th grade at Community -- attended the
commencement and remarked afterwards that it was pretty long.  I
guess if there are 80 graduates and each one gives a speech, it
could drag out a bit.

Yes, I did just say that I loved the school.  And now that I'm on the 
"School Improvement Committee" I'm going to make sure that they don't 
destroy Graduation Again.  I'll hit them with some of Britain's "Peace 
Through Superior Cactus Power."  The cermeony was only long because the 
prelude was long.  As far as my thoughts about Jared, May the fires of 
Muspelheim roar above you for all eternity.

I actually thought that the graduation went pretty well.  Yes, it did take a
long time to get started, but that's not really important.  What's important
is what happened after it got started.  Yes, I was bothered by the presence of
the security guards, at first, because I thought that they might do something
to dampen the festivities, but that didn't actually happen.  They just watched
for major trouble, none of which occurred, and seemed to be enjoying the
cerimony (I guess its better than watching cement dry ;) ).  Yes, Commie is a
great school, and we have a great graduation to go with it.

I'd I suppose you think people don't have a right to sleep.  If it says it 
starts at 6:30 Pm, then for the gods' sake it should start at 6:30 Pm.
It is scientific fact that if you have security guards at graduation it 
merely disposes people to cause trouble.  And for that theatre, if we really
need security guards, we only need one!  '92 Graduation actually meant
somethingto me, while this one meant nothing.  It was because there were no
security guards, not because Brit is so important to me.  These formal ticket
takers also helped slow  graduation down.  What right do they have to make the
students stand in that tiny entery room, while they're busy rushing the
Priority people through. I  realize that parents and friends of graduates are
important, but the only  people who should be granted any sort of priority are
the graduating seniord. Everyone else is just as important.  Graduation
ceremonies are completely  destroyed for me if I see even one damn security
guard.  Get rid of the  security guards, priority tickets, and formal ticket
takers, then I may  respect Commie High Graduation again.

The graduation was primarily for the graduates.  The priority tickets were for
those people given priority tickets by the graduates.  They didn't cause any
problems in finding seats, so I didn't see the problems with them.  As for the
ticket takers, I didn't really notice who they were, but if we are going to h
have ticket takers, I don't really see the problem with having professionals.
I don't really see the need for ticket takers at all, however.  The tickets
were being given out to any body who walked up to the box office and asked
for them.  It would have worked just as well just to let people walk in.
  As for starting on time, when was the last time anything started on time.
Generally, things start late, due to the fact that people take longer than they
expect to get ready.  They would get lots more complaints if they started on
time, from people who were late, than they do by starting late.

Commie does not NEED PRIORITY tickets.  If people are too stupid to get to 
graduation on time, then they should get shitty seats.  Well, I see the 
professional ticket takers as sayong "Commie High is A Rich-Snobb School."
We could have spent our money on more important thins than adding a 
"classy" look to graduation.  It was classy enough to begin with.  People
who arrive late deserve not to know what they missed, and if they complain,
they only accoplish showing themselves to be morons.  The problem was, the
students and other none priortiy people had to wait in that extremly small
room.  They could have at least had us wait in the larger, warmer, hall.  

Yes, we did have to wait longer before going in, but did it really matter?
It wasn't raining outside, and it wasn't cold.  Liberty is a big enough street
for me.  I don't really see the need to be inside early, as long as I am there
by the time it starts.  As for the priority tickets, no we do not need them,
and if I were doing the planning, we wouldn't have had them.  Still, I don't
see them as something to object to.  As far as I am concerned, the graduation
is primarily for the graduates.  Bjorn, you and I weren't graduating.  If I
hear complaints from the graduates about the ticket takers, then I will join
them in complaining.

Well maybe you were just wearing wrmer clothes than I was.  The only reason to
be
 inside early is to get better seats, this is easier if you have no PRIORITY 
tickets.  If they want to get things done fast, they should section off where
parents and other family seating is reserved.  I haven't heard any of the 
Grads complaning, but that;s because it doesn't really matter to them when it
Starts, It's when it ends and they get all their graduation hugs that matters.
Well at least now we can Fuck over those damned, accursed, Mother fuckin' 
priority tickets.

Do I detect a residue of distaste in the 'current system'?

Mmmm, suprised you didn't notice earlier.  This isn't Commie's usual graduation
procedure, it's a new procedure.  I'm gonna do what ever I can to make sure we
don't have any blankity blank blank PRIORITY tickets.  It's Communoistically 
correct!  

well, I did, actually ...  Btw, good luck.

re: #13
And we didn't have good seats (front row of the balcony)?

Well, WE may have been lucky enough to get good seats.  

Yes, WE may have been lucky enough to get good seats.  And WE didn't have
priority tickets.

True but those seats truly were pure luck, after all, most of the past alums
hadtaken up the good seating.

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