It's the time of year that millions of students look forward to: donning caps and gowns and walking in their high school graduation ceremonies, cheered on by friends and families.
Nothing did, unless you count the graduates' loud cheers, hardly unusual at graduations.
But so is its wonderful sense of possibility: Although his mother had only a seventh-grade education, the Bergers applauded her decision to get a college degree--and cheered her graduation in 1987.
Today, it's common at graduation ceremonies to see parents cheer wildly as the first member of their family receives a university degree.
Like every graduation ceremony, the day was filled with loud cheers, screams and cries of graduates' names.
Two weeks ago, the superintendent of Senatobia High School in Jackson, Mississippi filed disturbing the peace charges against the parents of Black high school students for cheering too loudly during their graduation ceremony.
Mason and his best friend, played by Sam Dillon, walk in the door in their graduation gowns, and the family members milling around cheer and take pictures with their smartphones.
Fridaah Nhuyen, 18, joins friends to cheer as they get ready for graduation at the Starlight Bowl for Burbank High School's graduation.
"You couldn't even hear him doing the prayer anymore because everybody was clapping and cheering," Logan Gibson, who attended the graduation, told WYFF.
The arena was full of people who cheered for their favorite breed as if they were cheering for a family member at high-school graduation.
Mom and Dad cheered and cried as our names were called at graduation ceremonies, and cried even more when we married and made them grandparents.
