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by Demetria Irwin, thegrio.com

When most of us go to a graduation, we pretty much expect to encounter at least one loud, obnoxious mom screaming, “That’s my baby!” “Gone ‘head [insert embarrassing family nickname]!” and the like through out much of the ceremony. An interaction or two with security guards and maybe even a not-so-subtle exit might also happen, but we don’t expect an arrest. Unfortunately, that is precisely what happened to one South Carolina mom this year when she was being “disruptive” at her daughter’s high school graduation.

Shannon Cooper was cheering on her daughter at the young lady’s high school graduation when she was escorted out of the facility by local police and arrested for disorderly conduct. Cooper spent several hours at the Florence County Detention Center until she the posted a $225 bond.

Must have been slow for South Carolina cops that day. We’re hauling in loud moms at graduations these days? Granted, the school did send out letters to parents beforehand reminding them of the need to celebrate in a non-disruptive manner and let’s be real, it is very annoying when one parent is screaming so loudly that other families can’t hear their loved one’s names being read. But unless this woman was throwing elbows at people near her, or shooting deadly blow darts at her daughter’s classmates, arrest was a level 10 response to a level 2 situation.

Some have said that law enforcement and school administrators need to just get used to over-zealous families because of the dismal high school graduation rates in the black community. According to Yes We Can: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males, only 47 percent of black males graduated from high school in the 2007-2008 school year. The years since then haven’t been much better, with many of this country’s major cities hovering around the 50 percent mark for high school drop out rates and even dismally lower rates for black and Hispanic students.

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