Graduation cords

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whole cord thing is over done to me.
I am all for celebrating the kids but it has gotten a bit out of hand. There seem to be so many obscure honor societies and its not even clear how to join them.

Mine was eligible for a bunch, but couldn't be bothered to fill out any of the forms or jump through any of the hoops.

So they were top 5% of their class (per the Governor's Award), but had no honor societies. Ultimately, none of it mattered. They were smart enough to figure that out early, I guess?

Good for them. Did anyone comment about it?

[Anonymous]

They had a key in our graduation program for WJ:

Cords for:
ACES Scholar
APEX Scholar
Art National Honor Society
Black Student Union
Computer Science
Edison or Fire Academy Scholar
ESOL National Honor Society
Financial Literacy Recognition
Jewish Student Union
LEAD Scholar
Maryland Youth & Government
Math National Honor Society
Minority Scholars
Mock Trial
Music National Honor Society
National Honor Society
Pitch (Newspaper) Leadership
Psi Alpha - Psychology Honor Society
Rho Kappa - Social Studies Honor Society
Science National Honor Society
Summer Rise
Theater Honor Society
Chinese Honor Society
Latin Honor Society
Spanish Honor Society

Awards
Dual Enrollment AA Degree (Purple and Silver Stole)
Maryland Seal of Biliteracy (Red, White and Blue Medal)
Meritorious Service Award SSL (Purple Tassle)

Other
Music Medals (pinned to stole)
Sports (Medals worn around neck or pins for stole)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whole cord thing is over done to me.
I am all for celebrating the kids but it has gotten a bit out of hand. There seem to be so many obscure honor societies and its not even clear how to join them.

Mine was eligible for a bunch, but couldn't be bothered to fill out any of the forms or jump through any of the hoops.

So they were top 5% of their class (per the Governor's Award), but had no honor societies. Ultimately, none of it mattered. They were smart enough to figure that out early, I guess?

(I mean, none of it mattered other than the GPA)

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They had a key in our graduation program for WJ:

Cords for:
ACES Scholar
APEX Scholar
Art National Honor Society
Black Student Union
Computer Science
Edison or Fire Academy Scholar
ESOL National Honor Society
Financial Literacy Recognition
Jewish Student Union
LEAD Scholar
Maryland Youth & Government
Math National Honor Society
Minority Scholars
Mock Trial
Music National Honor Society
National Honor Society
Pitch (Newspaper) Leadership
Psi Alpha - Psychology Honor Society
Rho Kappa - Social Studies Honor Society
Science National Honor Society
Summer Rise
Theater Honor Society
Chinese Honor Society
Latin Honor Society
Spanish Honor Society

Awards
Dual Enrollment AA Degree (Purple and Silver Stole)
Maryland Seal of Biliteracy (Red, White and Blue Medal)
Meritorious Service Award SSL (Purple Tassle)

Other
Music Medals (pinned to stole)
Sports (Medals worn around neck or pins for stole)

Summer Rise? Even though they don't have enough room for all the kids and the ones that do it are randomly selected?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They had a key in our graduation program for WJ:

Cords for:
ACES Scholar
APEX Scholar
Art National Honor Society
Black Student Union
Computer Science
Edison or Fire Academy Scholar
ESOL National Honor Society
Financial Literacy Recognition
Jewish Student Union
LEAD Scholar
Maryland Youth & Government
Math National Honor Society
Minority Scholars
Mock Trial
Music National Honor Society
National Honor Society
Pitch (Newspaper) Leadership
Psi Alpha - Psychology Honor Society
Rho Kappa - Social Studies Honor Society
Science National Honor Society
Summer Rise
Theater Honor Society
Chinese Honor Society
Latin Honor Society
Spanish Honor Society

Awards
Dual Enrollment AA Degree (Purple and Silver Stole)
Maryland Seal of Biliteracy (Red, White and Blue Medal)
Meritorious Service Award SSL (Purple Tassle)

Other
Music Medals (pinned to stole)
Sports (Medals worn around neck or pins for stole)

Summer Rise? Even though they don't have enough room for all the kids and the ones that do it are randomly selected?

What does that matter? They successfully completed the program.

[Anonymous]

I'm from flyover country where there are no trendy graduation accessories.

This post totally explains why my son's high school summer study abroad provider sent him a beautiful tri-color cord 9 months after he completed the program.

I think they missed graduation by a few days too.

Our school has just a 1-3 cord system based on GPA. All the cords are the same color.