http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/11/1392388/-School-superintendent-drops-outrageous-charges-against-black-families-who-cheered-at-graduation?detail=email
One week after it was announced that four family members in Senatobia, Mississippi, were being charged with a crime for cheering at the local high school graduation, the superintendent of schools finally relented and dropped the charges.
Schools Superintendent Jay Foster dropped the charges on Monday, one day before the case was set to go to court, News Channel 3 out of memphis and the Clarion-Ledger are reporting. Foster could not be reached and no reason was given for the decision.
The case erupted about a week ago when word leaked about the incident in which people shouted good wishes and cheers at the May 21 graduation of Senatobia (Miss.) High School after Foster made clear that audience members should hold applause and cheers as graduates received diplomas. Four people were removed from the ceremonies and Foster had charges for disturbing
A local Justice Court clerk told the Clarion-Ledger that Foster filed the paperwork to drop the charges Monday afternoon.
This is a great example of why it matters to not only report injustice, but for people to let their frustrations be known. Hundreds of people called and wrote the superintendent over the past week and the story really jumped from being a local story in Mississippi to becoming a national outrage.
i feel confident in saying had we the people not taken this up and expressed the absurdity of this school official Tuesday morning they would have been in court for experiencing the pride of our young graduating something that was not a main stay in the scholastic dynamic of far too many families. as i said at original posting there was no mention of White families clapping or cheering but does that mean they didn't were they so aloof and disengaged that when their kid was called they just yawned???????
