At this time of year the American news media is resplendent with great weird news stories about high school students not being allowed to graduate at the last moment because of pranks gone wrong -- but a student losing his diploma for blowing a kiss to his mother as he walked the commencement stage has to be a first.That's what happened to Justin Denney, a Bonny Eagle High student from the state of Maine. Apparently this show of long-distance affection violated a code of conduct that Denney and the other students had signed.
The school district's superintendent, who was presiding over the ceremony, made the snap decision not to give Denney his diploma and send him back to his seat empty-handed.
You can watch Justin Denney's "conduct violation" after the jump, and decide for yourself if the superintendent's harsh ruling had any merit.
Oh well. It could have been worse. Right, penis-costume boy?
