LPMS 8th Grade Promotion

[Anonymous]

Are you kidding me with that?
Parents not allowed to attend.
Livestream a complete disaster.
But from what I could see and what my kid told me, I didn’t miss much.
How utterly disappointing after the middle school experience they’ve had due to the pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Is this for real?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this for real?

From what perspective?
You think parents shouldn’t be disappointed at not being allowed to attend a milestone event?
Or you are actually asking if it went down like that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this for real?

From what perspective?
You think parents shouldn’t be disappointed at not being allowed to attend a milestone event?
Or you are actually asking if it went down like that?

Actually asking if it went down like that.

[Anonymous]

NP. Yes, it went down like that. The parents on the committee for planning the 8th grade celebration chose to make the promotion ceremony virtual for parents instead of in-person. A link was sent out to live-stream the ceremony. The ceremony was planned to be brief (45 minutes) and not have most of the class walk the stage. From the start of the ceremony, there was no audio. Thirteen minutes in, the feed was dropped. A new feed started (school didn’t send link out or communicate with parents at all), same issues.

We got no ceremony and no yard signs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP. Yes, it went down like that. The parents on the committee for planning the 8th grade celebration chose to make the promotion ceremony virtual for parents instead of in-person. A link was sent out to live-stream the ceremony. The ceremony was planned to be brief (45 minutes) and not have most of the class walk the stage. From the start of the ceremony, there was no audio. Thirteen minutes in, the feed was dropped. A new feed started (school didn’t send link out or communicate with parents at all), same issues.

We got no ceremony and no yard signs.

(just wondering)
So typically, who pay for the yard signs? School budget, PTA, or 8th-grader parents contribution?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. Yes, it went down like that. The parents on the committee for planning the 8th grade celebration chose to make the promotion ceremony virtual for parents instead of in-person. A link was sent out to live-stream the ceremony. The ceremony was planned to be brief (45 minutes) and not have most of the class walk the stage. From the start of the ceremony, there was no audio. Thirteen minutes in, the feed was dropped. A new feed started (school didn’t send link out or communicate with parents at all), same issues.

We got no ceremony and no yard signs.

(just wondering)
So typically, who pay for the yard signs? School budget, PTA, or 8th-grader parents contribution?

I don’t know. Pre-pandemic, there were in-person ceremonies and no yard signs. The last two years, there were no in-person ceremonies, but there were yard signs. This year, there was a botched virtual ceremony and no yard signs. I’ve never had an 8th grader before.

[Anonymous]

Yard signs are new from pandemic shutdown. They are coordinated by the PTA and parents buy them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yard signs are new from pandemic shutdown. They are coordinated by the PTA and parents buy them.

+1

Who organized their promotion? It seems like they dropped the ball.

[Anonymous]

The technical issues added to the poor outcome of the promotion ceremony. RCES had a much better ceremony for 5th grade. Who’s idea was the cruise/dance? The 8th grade family picnic? Did they ask the kids what they wanted?

[Anonymous]

Our school also had virtual promotion for parents. Was that the norm this year for 8th grade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school also had virtual promotion for parents. Was that the norm this year for 8th grade?

I don’t know what most schools did, but MLK MS had a very nice in-person promotion ceremony on Monday night at Seneca Valley.

[Anonymous]

My guess is whomever decided the ceremony would be virtual really underestimated the kind of a/v equipment needed to properly live stream the event and capture audio, if they were just using a Chromebook to capture everything that wouldn't be good enough. I have friends who did a 5th grade live stream and they used a camcorder, microphones and a mixer.

[Anonymous]

I totally understand that sometimes things happen that are beyond control.
But the principal hasn’t even acknowledged what a mess it was. I cannot believe she did not send a communication last night apologizing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I totally understand that sometimes things happen that are beyond control.
But the principal hasn’t even acknowledged what a mess it was. I cannot believe she did not send a communication last night apologizing.

+1 Very strange that this wasn’t acknowledged. I’m really sad for the student who gave a speech that no one outside the room could hear, including her parents.