""For some people, it might be the only member of their family to graduate high school, and it was like a funeral in there," Orr said."
I think that somes it up pretty well. These people were probably trash, and i doubt they gave a simple cheer or a 'whoop'. It would be one thing if people could clap for their grad and then quiet down for the next person so their family could hear their name called, but I've seen it get way out of hand for some of these people. A kid at my brothers graduation did the 'c-walk' after he got his diploma while his whole family screamed for the 2 minutes.