A different diploma controversy

Here in Rockford, a recent controversy involved the question of whether to posthumously award a high school diploma to a young man who was shot and killed a few weeks before graduation.

In downstate Galesburg, there's a flap over the School District's refusal to give diploma certificates to five students whose families and friends defied a rule against loud cheering at graduation ceremonies.

The Rascal, whose becoming increasingly cranky about rudeness in his old age, sides with the school officials in the Galesburg case.

Actually, I also side with Rockford School Superintendent Dennis Thompson in the local case.