Graduation 2026

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Anonymous wrote:Are the cord colors listed in the graduation ceremony booklet? Will the booklet tell guests that Larlo's medal and cord colors indicate he earned a seal of biliteracy, completed financial math, and was national honor society?

Why? Does anyone really care?

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Anonymous wrote:How many graduation ceremonies did DAR hold per day? UMBC has three a day?

DAR had two per day, morning and afternoon. UMBC has three, morning, afternoon, and evening.

Zimmerman read a 2nd grade story book for her speech to the grads at Sherwood.

Why on earth would she do that??

Didn’t Zimmerman do the same thing at the Wheaton graduation. It was too long and made her look batty

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Anonymous wrote:Whoever announced students' names before they came onto the stage did horrific jobs calling names despite students phonetically writing their names to be used by the announcer. Rushed too. If you can't even read off a piece of paper, don't do the job of calling out names. Not everyone's name is an easy John Doe. Embarrassing to hear in this particular county.

Which school?

Does.Not.Matter.What school.
It could apply to any setting actually. If you don't know how to say someone's name, ask them how you pronounce it. Maybe it's hard to get it right which is understood. But when students have written it out for them, and they are still so off?

At our ceremony, the announcers were several teachers from the world languages department, and they did a great job.

That’s cool. I might know the school PP referenced. Students announced names. I think it was a high pressure situation for them.

Why have students announce names? Isn't it their own graduation? Can't they just sit back and relax on their day? Outsource that job if Admin and teachers are tied up with other graduation logistics which no doubt graduation is a lot to manage.

Some kids actually like it and find it an honor. Sit back and relax is a weird comment if you actually know graduating teens.

Then honor each name. Practice. Don't rush.

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Way too many speeches.
Maybe just have Principal, Class President and one keynote speaker. Overload for high school graduation.

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Anonymous wrote:Way too many speeches.
Maybe just have Principal, Class President and one keynote speaker. Overload for high school graduation.

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At one graduation, each class student gov association member spoke. Too long. Who creates the format and decides who speaks?

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Are BOE members the main speakers and invited to speak, or are they required to speak at each of the 26 HS graduations?

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Anonymous wrote:Are BOE members the main speakers and invited to speak, or are they required to speak at each of the 26 HS graduations?

They are not the main speakers, but they are required to be at the graduations to confer the diplomas.

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I couldn’t believe the principals from all of a high school’s feeder middle and elementary schools attend the graduation ceremony.

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Anonymous wrote:I couldn’t believe the principals from all of a high school’s feeder middle and elementary schools attend the graduation ceremony.

And sit together and chit chat ? Who's running the schools?

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Some of you are so weird and complain about everything.

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I agree with PP. what a bunch of complainers. DD’s graduation was very nice and it was a good venue. The kids and their families were happy and excited. And it’s not like it was Downtown Baltimore. It’s right off the highway with lots of parking. Everything was well organized. Speeches were painful like they always are but that’s part of the fun. The names were read well and things moved along fast.

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The location provides families a chance to see the campus of UMBC, located in a suburb of Baltimore, NOT in the city.

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Anonymous wrote:I couldn’t believe the principals from all of a high school’s feeder middle and elementary schools attend the graduation ceremony.

And sit together and chit chat ? Who's running the schools?

Y'all stupid

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Anonymous wrote:I couldn’t believe the principals from all of a high school’s feeder middle and elementary schools attend the graduation ceremony.

It's to acknowledge that those schools were a significant part of many of the graduates' educations.

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Anonymous wrote:Way too many speeches.
Maybe just have Principal, Class President and one keynote speaker. Overload for high school graduation.

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At one graduation, each class student gov association member spoke. Too long. Who creates the format and decides who speaks?

My daughter‘s graduation last week each member of the student government spoke. Nobody spoke too long. Everybody was relatively brief.