Going to step-sons 8th grade "graduation". Help me.

[notposting]

So, pics of wife?

 

[irishScott]

I never had an eighth grade graduation and I'm 31. Thank christ, that's a bunch of fuckin crap. I'm sure we'll have 3rd and 4th grade graduations pretty soon at this rate.

Sadly, that just might be the case one day. Apparently millennial have a larger narcissistic streak than previous generations, which means a lot of mothers wanting to show off their kid's first pimple to show their kid is out-developing the other kids.

 

[JujuFish]

You had a party every year and you're 'WTF' about this?

I never had an 'end of year party' throughout school. Never. I didn't even know a 'graduation [from high school
] party' was a thing, TBQH. Seems retarded as shit to me.

I had a graduation LAN party, though my friends and I were pretty nerdy.

 

[Madwand1]

It's not the celebration that's being questioned, it's the nature of it. There's a big difference between an end-of-year party and a "graduation ceremony".

Sure, at an end-of-year party, you mill around etc., while a ceremony is structured, and gives time to recognize, celebrate, and remember every child.

I guess it gets more diluted with bigger schools, but at the early ages especially, the schools can be small, and every kid can be known by everyone.

Just came from both -- a ceremony and a party, and it's no contest -- in the party the parents talk about their kids with other parents directly, and about other things like homes, work, politics, etc., and the kids go off to play by themselves as usual, while the ceremony was entirely focused on the kids ----- where we got to see every one of them do and say something, and see how far they've come with pictures and videos.

If you couldn't spare the time or thought for a graduation, or thought that it was unnecessary because they haven't accomplished anything and are not worth the time and trouble, maybe it's your school or parenting which is lacking?

 

[OverVolt]

Enjoy your time there as best you can. You might be surprised and actually have fun if you keep good company or find someone to talk to that you click with.

 

[unokitty]

At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon, graduations aren't what they used to be...

NC high school grad won't get diploma after stripping on stage

OP, best of luck!
Uno

 

[highland145]

At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon, graduations aren't what they used to be...

NC high school grad won't get diploma after stripping on stage

OP, best of luck!
Uno

That's one of my local news stations.


Now where's the female version?

 

[Exterous]

Now where's the female version?

Do you have a daughter? If so its something to aspire for

 

[highland145]

Do you have a daughter? If so its something to aspire for

Thankfully, no.

 

[Exterous]

Thankfully, no.

To bad - SC might finally have had some reason to be considered 'The Best Carolina'

 

[highland145]

To bad - SC might finally have had some reason to be considered 'The Best Carolina'

There's another one?:hmm:



The parents of some teenage boy are unknowingly thankful I don't have a girl.

 

[MarkXIX]

This is the result of Baby Boomers running these schools and bringing their hippie bullshit to the masses. My wife and I were both passed off about it with our daughter recently. For her it was just another social occasion.

 

[Markbnj]

Late to this, but all three of our daughters had "middle school graduation" at the end of 8th grade. I thought it was stupid then, and I think it's stupid now. I don't know how it got started, or why, but I think there is a significance to graduating after 12th grade, i.e. you're actually done. You don't have to go on to college. You are marking the end of childhood (or should be).

Now, get off my lawn.

 

[Braznor]

You think you have a problem?

Imagine the hell the parents of those kids who didn't graduate must be going through!

 

[The Boston Dangler]

LOL money cake. just remember, the amount of your money going into his cakes will only increase.

"hey, you've existed through no doing of your own for 16 years...congratulations! here's a car! nothing but the best for mommy's little angel, and by extension, mommy."

i would have nipped this bullshit in the bud. time for a reality check.

 

[MtnMan]

Sounds to me like theres deeper issues here than a graduation. Sounds like you don't really like the kid, graduation or not.

No, it sounds like he is the only sane person living in the house. It is an expectation that a kid goes to each grade in sequence, until they graduate from high school.

This "gold star" for every kid regardless of their effort or success only feeds the entitlement that is destroying this country.

Like getting paid $15/hour for working at some fast food joint, NO, you are not entitled to $15/hr when your effort is only worth $5/hr (if that)

 

[Markbnj]

You think you have a problem?

Imagine the hell the parents of those kids who didn't graduate must be going through!

They're all still living at home anyway.