Son graduating from high school, not enough tickets to the ceremony

[Anonymous]

If the number of tickets was not an issue, I would expect the sibling to go. As PP's have said, I expect my kids to support each other at their important events, when possible. However, here the number of tickets is an issue so you need to prioritize. I'd ask the grandparents if they all want to go and if they do, they are likely to appreciate the event a lot more and sibling can stay home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My younger would have zero interest in sitting through her brother's graduation. I'd take the grandparents. They will appreciate it a lot more than the sibling.

My thoughts exactly.

Same here. I’d ask the sibling, but I’d expect it would be the grandparents attending

[Anonymous]

I never separate siblings or couples. Therefore, the sibling goes, the ILs don't. You have one ticket to give away.

Alternatively, you can post on your listserve to ask for one extra ticket.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m another one who is surprised that the sibling would not have an automatic ticket.

??? Graduations always have a very limited number of tickets and siblings are never considered. Each graduate usually gets 3 or 4 tickets, no exceptions, because space is so limited at the venue. There might be a mechanism in place for people to donate unused tickets, but without the tickets, families show up with every sibling, grandparent, aunt, uncle, and cousin. Even my 5th grader had a limit of 3 tickets to his graduation this year.

I think they meant automatic per the parents’ distribution. I cannot even fathom either of my two children missing the other’s graduation. No way would a grandparent get to go while only sibling stays home. But, my kids are close. Maybe not everyone’s are.

[Anonymous]

I would volunteer to stay home. Honestly, send an email to all concerned, "We have one less ticket than we need for all the Bakers and Smiths to attend graduation. Please let me know if you would like to volunteer as a tribute. Your reward will be a quiet house and a pass on a graduation gift." That is how it would go in my family.

[Anonymous]

Immediate family and siblings get a ticket. All others wait to be asked.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If sibling doesn't want to go, let them stay home. It is a long boring ceremony listening to speeches and watching many many people who you don't know walk across a stage. Grandparents are far more likely to be to enthused about the 30 seconds your son walks than the sibling is. Sibling joins for the party, reception event.

Kid is graduating from high school. Chances are sibling knows graduating kids and siblings in the audience.

[Anonymous]

Ugh, high school graduations are so painful.
I’m surprised so many people still view it as such a major event. I mean, basically no one fails high school now, right? And for most people, this isn’t even the end of their education, right? HS graduation now seems to me much like 8th grade graduation, unless you have a kid for whom it was really a significant struggle and major accomplishment. I think the party is nice, as sort of a recognition of bridging to adulthood, but the graduation itself seems to me like such a non-event.
Also, I’m from a big family and honestly can’t remember if I went to any of my siblings’ HS graduations. If I went, I blacked them out.

[Anonymous]

So for those of you who feel all siblings should attend, what if there are more siblings than available tickets?

I come from a big family, I don't think I went to any of my siblings graduations. That was an adult thing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So for those of you who feel all siblings should attend, what if there are more siblings than available tickets?

I come from a big family, I don't think I went to any of my siblings graduations. That was an adult thing!

If it was important to your family that the siblings all be there they would have asked around and got extra tickets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So for those of you who feel all siblings should attend, what if there are more siblings than available tickets?

I come from a big family, I don't think I went to any of my siblings graduations. That was an adult thing!

There were 6 of us. One sibling came to mine (my mom forced it and he was miserable). No one else attended a sibling’s graduation until the youngest two.

[Anonymous]

Attending the graduation is not the only way a sibling can be supportive of the achievement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whoever doesn't get to go will be relieved, ha ha.

+1,000,000. Truth!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So for those of you who feel all siblings should attend, what if there are more siblings than available tickets?

I come from a big family, I don't think I went to any of my siblings graduations. That was an adult thing!

I'm the youngest of 6 and I went to all my older siblings' high school graduations!

[Anonymous]

Check craigslist for extra tickets. People do scalp them online.