General on Yik Yak | Hot take: only high school, college, and post grad should have graduation ceremonies with cap and gown. Seeing elementary and middle schools hold graduation ceremonies with full grad regalia just doesn’t feel right to me. It should be something special

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General 20w

Hot take: only high school, college, and post grad should have graduation ceremonies with cap and gown. Seeing elementary and middle schools hold graduation ceremonies with full grad regalia just doesn’t feel right to me. It should be something special

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Anonymous 20w

Yeah stuff that literally everyone goes through isn’t special and we shouldn’t celebrate it. That’s why I propose we should end birthdays too. 😉

Anonymous 20w

“When everyone and everything is special, it makes the special mundane”

Anonymous 20w

i remember in my 5th grade graduation, we just made little hats from construction paper 💀

Anonymous 20w

why are you worried about middle school graduates stealing your thunder 😭

Anonymous 20w

i had a kindergarten graduation but no elementary school or middle school graduation, and I really liked that

Anonymous 20w

My school was k-12 in the same building, so they had the seniors pair up with kids graduating either kindergarten or pre-k (it’s been a hot minute so I don’t remember exactly), in full cap and gown regalia, and parade around the school past all the classrooms. They filmed it and put it on Facebook with the kids being the focus of it, not the seniors graduating

Anonymous 20w

I understand a ceremony but not a cap and gown for graduating from middle school 😭😭

Anonymous 20w

High school shouldn’t have it either. Graduating high school is nothing special

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Anonymous

#6 20w

I don’t know how to explain this very well, but it’s not that it affects me personally, but rather that I think children should not perceive graduations as common or “ordinary”. In reality graduation should be celebrated as this incredible accomplishment! If it’s common it’s not special. When I graduated high school the movement was so special BECAUSE I had never dressed in regalia before. I get sad thinking that one day my future kids won’t think a graduation is something special.

Anonymous

#4 20w

Basically just this quote

Anonymous

OP 20w

I mean, since Covid schools have decided that the ceremony is a “privilege” and take it away at the slightest “misconduct”, there was a kid who’s brakes went out driving to graduation rehearsal and he pulled over, ya know, to be safe, and the school said he couldn’t walk with his class but they would “hold a private ceremony after the full ceremony for him and his family”. Best part his little sibling were in the truck with him so he was being safe for himself and them. Schools are fucked up now

Anonymous

OP 20w

I just don’t think it matters that much, making it through middle school was absolute hell for me and ik I would’ve appreciated a celebration

Anonymous

#11 20w

this is so out of touch

Anonymous

#7 20w

How is it out of touch? Honestly if we’re not celebrating 8th grade graduations and middle school we shouldn’t be celebrating high school. Nothing special about graduating high school especially when most of it is government mandated. College and beyond is when it becomes an achievement

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Anonymous

#11 19w

The reason middle and elementary schools shouldn’t graduate is because they still have to go to school, high school is the point where you get to choose your life, whether that is going into the workforce or college or tech school. When you finish high school your life, education, and future is completely up to you and your choices that is why it is important to celebrate it. After middle school you are forced into high school, same with elementary school. So not the same in any capacity