Tebowing.  NFL quarterback Tim Tebow’s legendary “one-kneed touchdown salute” has been made famous across the nation over the course football season.

In a recent article I read, high school senior Chuck Shriner celebrated his moment of walking across the stage with a well-known Tebow at graduation. The action got excessive laughter from parents and students alike, but administrators were not amused. They quickly reprimanded him by taking away his diploma and giving him clean-up duty following the graduation ceremony.

Although Shriner’s act can be considered that of a distraction to students, he did nothing wrong to deserve a punishment to this severity. Nobody was harmed by his simple kneel and everyone else in the crowd found it to be funny. Administrators just felt the need to reprimand a student because he did something that took away from the main focus of the celebration.

The most interesting part of this consequence was that the school in which this occurred was a religious private school. You would think that administrators would praise the use of prayer in school.

Honestly, there was no reason for Shriner to get in trouble for his two-second Tebow and the principal needs to get off his high pedestal and shake off what happened.
For the record, this isn’t the first time that students have gotten in trouble for Tebowing. Four teens in New York were given one day suspensions when they tebowed in the hallway of Riverhead High School with other students during a class change. In this situation though, a consequence is legitimate because while watching the video, you can see that the crowd of students was blocking the hallway, making it almost impossible for students to get through. By intentionally interrupting the flow of the school day, these students deserved some type of consequence, but in the Shriner case, he didn’t interrupt anything substantially.

This entire situation is ridiculously over dramatic and Shriner deserves a pat on the back for expressing his excitement towards graduating.