A Tennessee high school graduation was less ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ and more ‘Ponchos and Precipitation’ as students in their caps and gowns were forced to collect diplomas during a torrential downpour.
Drenched families watched from soaked stands while a video from the ceremony shows graduates trudging across a podium in the middle of a flooded football field amid relentless rain, leaving parents, staff and students sodden.
It has sparked a growing backlash against officials in Williamson County after staff at Centennial and Franklin High Schools allowed the graduations to continue outdoors despite a forecast of heavy downpours and concerns about lightning…