No, not really. But, moments ago, Fox News aired a story that happened at Gallaudet’s Elstad Auditorium today.
School officials at Eastern Senior High School sold 1,000 $80 tickets for an auditorium that only had room for 750 attendees (not including graduates themselves). So a good number of family members, many elderly, and many from out of town, were locked out of Elstad by police (whether it was ESHS security, Gally DPS, or DC police, I don’t know).
The school offered to hold a second graduation for those who were locked out and forced to wait outside the doors, but many graduates didn’t want to wait.
I watched these family members and graduates walk across campus looking pissed from my office window and wondered what was up.
Now I know. And I can’t blame ‘em. Imagine paying eighty buckaroos to get locked out of your own kid’s graduation. Sucks.
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Someone needs to be fired for this fiasco.
How sad! I’ve never heard of any high school CHARGING for people to attend graduation ceremonies.
My high school did. You were given a limited amount of tickets for free and if you wanted more, you had to buy them.
Yeah me too. $80 bucks is highway robbery.
Sounds like a mistake made by Gallaudet, I remember last semester when a town hall meeting was called and the entire campus community of 2,000 plus were invited to Foster Auditorium that has a seating capacity of not even 200.
Anyone know if the Gally PR office has issued a statement to say that the graduates aren’t deaf enough? Someone told me IKJ (vacationing in Italy, btw) said that the parents are just squabbling about what it means to view a graduation ceremony.
One parent was arrested fot raising eyebrow.
Actually, Gallaudet warned Eastern High School that there was 750 seat capacity but Eastern chose to sell more than they can. If EHS wants to sell more than 750, they should be prepare an overflow room.
That’s what Gallaudet always did with their graduations.