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SHS Parents: No To Triple Play

Posted by DFO

March 5, 2009 1:28 p.m. • 19 comments

Item: Sandpoint High parents don’t want 2009 graduates going to Triple Play for Grad Night/Conor Christofferson, Bonner County Bee

More Info: Plans for Sandpoint High School’s annual Grad Night celebration are in flux after a group of senior class parents voiced concerns about the party’s location.Traditionally held at the Bonner County Fairgrounds, the June event is scheduled to take place at Coeur d’Alene’s Triple Play Family Fun Park. The move has proven controversial, with a group of unhappy parents going as far as threatening to hold a competing party at the fairgrounds.

Question: Would you be angry if your kid’s graduation class decided to hold Grad Night in another community?

19 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Cis on March 05 at 3:04 p.m.
I have a grandson in this class, but I haven’t got his take on this yet…. I think if I was a parent, and I would have to ask my daughter, how she feels….But I would be really ticked that the protest didn’t come up before they put down $3,000 non refundable. It isn’t a big thing… My kids went to Stoneridge over in Blancard… when we lived in Priest River… it is the kid’s night… let them go where ever they want… You don’t (hopefully) get a second high school graduation night.
Aliasjax on March 05 at 3:20 p.m.
No…but I would be upset with a bunch of uptight, petty parents making a mountain out of a molehill…to quote P. Floyd - leave them kids alone…
Rosalind on March 05 at 3:53 p.m.
The point of a sponsored senior graduation night is to give graduates a SAFE party. Although Triple Play is an awesome location for a grad night party, the drive from and back to Sandpoint is dangerous enough already. Let them stay up all night and then drive home on 95? I can see that some parents might be nervous about students getting killed on the way home (or on the way there).
Frum Helen Back on March 05 at 4:11 p.m.
I was just so glad my kids were graduating that I didn’t care where the party was held.
Frum Helen Back on March 05 at 4:13 p.m.
Rosalind, If Sandpoint does like Lakeland, the seniors meet at the school and take school buses to and from the event.
Rosalind on March 05 at 4:15 p.m.
I think if students are REQUIRED to ride the bus to participate, then I don’t understand the problem.

Triple Play is a way cooler place for a grad party than the fairgrounds.
hhuseland on March 05 at 5:00 p.m.
It appears that the bottom line in this story is that there isn’t a bottom line. Either nobody has come up with the reason there is opposition, or it hasn’t been printed here yet. Can anyone out there express why? We need some articulation here, folks!
Cis on March 05 at 8:31 p.m.
it is the stay local bit, saying it is tradition to be at the fairgrounds. (it isn’t as it has been other places) and if you have been to our fairgrounds you would understand how dumb this is.
In the past they have kept it going until 8 in the morning with breakfast at the end.
Digger on March 05 at 8:32 p.m.
Sandpoint High School is known for students with uppity parents who like to raise hell. They proposed this my senior year (2003) and it failed and was held at the fairgrounds. I didn’t go because I was en-route to Boise to particpate as a counselor for Boy’s State.
hhuseland on March 05 at 10:15 p.m.
The last time I attended the fair grounds was many years ago when we had bluegrass festivals. Apparently, the newer upper crust of Sandpoint society decide that bluegrass wasn’t up to Gunther Shuler’s classical standards. It was then that I realized that Sandpoint had left is history behind and had surrendered to the elitist yuppies.

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