Anyone else want to go back to 1992 when every single grade didn’t have a “graduation” ceremony?

[kimberlyb891]

@kieshabowles That’s so wasteful! At least if they’re black they can be reused as Harry Potter costumes.

 

[kieshabowles]

@kimberlyb891 They’re white.

 

[chris239]

@kieshabowles The school sent us a link to buy ours on Amazon. Crazy.

 

[lackadaisical]

@kieshabowles Oh I'd be big mad about this. Like posting on school forums and showing up at school board meetings pissed. It's bad enough everything else's they want you to pay for but to insist you pay$25 for a cap and gown your kid is gonna wear 1 time or they can't participate? In preschool? Nope. That's just rude. I'd be the parent getting all the other parents to skip it and do our own graduation. When I was in preschool we had paper hats (that we made with the teachers help) and we wore an oversized cheap t-shirt we got from the craft store for like $1.50 all the kids were assigned a color so we looked like a rainbow. It was adorable.

 

[cristinasi]

@kieshabowles Went to my kiddo’s pre-k graduation today. They didn’t make us pay for the gowns - just took pictures with it. We got to sit on those dinky seats…hubs is 6’4. It was quite the site with his knees somewhere near his head. I got lots of pictures and felt mom-shamed because I didn’t have flowers.

 

[boy243]

@kieshabowles I was all about my kindergartener’a graduation. They didn’t have cap and gowns. If they did I absolutely wouldn’t have been so onboard.

 

[rimuelbathan]

@kieshabowles This seems unusual. Our preschool and kindergarten here reuse the same set every year for photos.

For my 8th grade graduation we didn’t have gowns, just nice clothes. High school is the only time I had to buy the cap and gown and I passed on my cap and gown to someone graduating the next year.

I say this as someone who graduated high school in 2017. I think your pre-K is ripping you off OP

 

[kieshabowles]

@rimuelbathan Frankly for both my kids I'm paying less than what my friends in richer areas (but only 5-10m away) are paying for one; so while I'm pretty angry when stuff like this happens, the delta even with all these little cuts is still huge. I'm more mad about the waste than the cost. We've all just become so used to buying crap just to throw it away.

 

[rimuelbathan]

@kieshabowles I can totally understand that perspective! We try to re-use as much as we can here as well.

 

[jcsista]

@kieshabowles Wow that is so wasteful!

 

[nrg23]

@kieshabowles They absolutely do. Same with universities. They get a cut.

 

[godsgal41]

@monkeym24 Kindergarten + 5th grade + 8th grade were actually not uncommon "graduations" even in the 90s! They weren't quite as widespread, but they definitely weren't unheard of. It does say something that most of us don't remember them though, so I don't think it's going to be traumatizing to skip them or pull your kid out for the day and do something else if you want.

 

[ayleeann]

@godsgal41 I finished kindergarten in 1996 and there was definitely a graduation. Same with 8th grade in 2004.

 

[covenant31band]

@ayleeann Yep I was only two years off from this, we had pre -k, kindergarten, 5th 8th and 12th graduation

 

[mimi2elle]

@ayleeann Same here; Except kindergarten was in ‘93 for me.

 

[panda01]

@ayleeann I believe I finished kindergarten in 1992 or 1993, and our graduation was the teacher sprinkling glitter on our heads. I recall mom being pissed because it wouldn't come off my scalp for MONTHS so I always sparkled

 

[mmn]

@godsgal41 I remember Lizzie McGuire's 8th grade graduation in the movie lol

 

[soulsearcher57]

@mmn And the dad from the Incredibles complaining about a third grade graduation being pointless.

 

[matthew116]

@soulsearcher57 I love in the second Incredibles movie where the dad is like "Why would they change math? MATH IS MATH!"

 

[dardenel]

@godsgal41 I was just about to say this. I definitely had all three of these ceremonies growing up.