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BROOKSVILLE — The graduates have left the stage at Hernando High School, but the bad feelings are lingering after dozens of parents and family members were excluded from watching Tuesday night's ceremony in person.
On Monday, school district officials will try to repair some of the damage at a 6 p.m. meeting for parents in the school's performing arts center.
That's the room where dozens of ticket-holding parents were sent to watch graduation on television after the gymnasium was filled to capacity.
While some family members eventually were seated in the gym after nearly 70 teachers and staffers offered up their seats, other parents were reduced to shouting in frustration through a chain-link fence or berating law enforcement officers who were guarding the closed gym doors.
School officials disputed reports from early-arriving parents that the doors to the gym were closed more than 45 minutes before the 7:30 p.m. event.
However, incoming principal Ken Pritz already has approved a plan to hold next year's commencement ceremony outside at the school's football stadium.
Fielding questions from disgruntled parents could prove to be a tougher challenge.
"I've received about a half-dozen calls," superintendent Wayne Alexander said Friday. "We're going to try to address concerns, explain what happened and why it happened. Try to explain something that shouldn't have happened."
Tom Marshall can be reached at tmarshall@sptimes.com or (352) 848-1431.
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Comments on this article
by Missy
Jun 16, 2008 11:22 AM
I do not know why HHS doesnt have graduation on the football field like SHS has for years it might be hot and sometimes you have to fight the rain but everyone has a seat and everyone gets too see their kid or kids graduate!!
by Cathy
Jun 14, 2008 11:06 PM
Our daughter was given 8 tickets for the event and they did close the doors that early.
by Mary Bernice
Jun 14, 2008 11:06 PM
They have been holding the overflow in the auditorium for years. Wait till next year...they will complain about the heat and when there is rain it will have to be moved into the gym.
by Bruce
Jun 14, 2008 11:05 PM
its a horrible thing to do to any parent and i bet anything that those faculty members would not settle for being locked out of their childrens graduation! Shame on you hernando high school!
by JoJOmo
Jun 14, 2008 11:05 PM
What backwoods country stupidity has a graduation in a gym. NO CLASS
by Teacher
Jun 14, 2008 11:05 PM
Alexander needs to explain a lot more than Hernando High. He needs to move the rest of the High School principals to fix the rest of the county problems.
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