How long is high school graduation?
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Anonymous
That PP is either a troll, an infrequent reader of DCUM or just joined this forum family. Please try to keep up, "Wait, why..." poster: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1196729.page |
Anonymous
| Getting back to helpful info, can you buy food or drink inside the stadium during graduation? |
Anonymous
6:15? They should meet at 5:30am. To load, wait for stragglers, morning rush hour traffic and get off ramp into UMBC parking lot, unload, set up, bathroom. Must be so boring for music students to sit through a 2+hrs ceremony especially if they don't have a sibling who is graduating. |
Anonymous
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It was painful to see the handful of kids making their way to their seats after the ceremony started.
I encourage you to leave with loads of extra time to arrive very early. These sites host multiple ceremonies all day, traffic was very heavy and parking was a slog. Congratulations and good luck! |
Anonymous
It's just too small for larger high schools. |
Anonymous
It's a two hour thing... |
Anonymous
Not a troll, just someone who hasn’t heard of a high school so far away having their graduation at UMBC. |
Anonymous
Yep. THIS from 5/30/24: Hours for pre-graduation ceremony prep-hair-gown-makeup-photos. THEN factor 2-3 hours for drive to UMBC (depending on where you're coming from), traffic to get on exit ramp and off, drop off student, parking, line, finding seats, bathroom etc.. 2 hrs for ceremony. THEN 2hrs to mingle, photos, bathroom, change clothes if needed, figure out where to go after, leaving parking lot be patient, finally get out of area for a celebratory meal/drinks. THEN drive +1hr to that place. |
Anonymous
You can’t bring it in. You leave home at 1030, stand in line in a parking lot, get home after 6. Don’t be a jerk. |
Anonymous
You're inside in the UMBC stadium for maybe two and a half hours, and yes, the concession stand is open, or at least it was yesterday. |
Anonymous
Yes! Even at our 8am graduation. People left mid-ceremony and came back with a bucket of popcorn! |
Anonymous
This isn't true. High Schools had the choice. They could do it at their school (this would mean outdoors at the football stadium because no auditorium is big enough) or at DAR or at UMBC. Our school had a vote of parents. Our parents chose UMBC. Some schools perhaps didn't have such a vote, and the administration decided (perhaps because they had a larger student body and wouldn't fit into the DAR). |
Anonymous
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We had a Google form but the way things were presented made for a difficult decision.
Stadium- most expensive option, no rain date DAR-limited tickets, difficult parking UMBC- most tickets, easy parking Still, I know myself and most of the parents I knew voted for our home stadium but I guess it wasn’t to be. It would have been a gorgeous day (last Friday), but it could have also been a disaster so I understand why the school went with the safe route. Even with the UMBC hassle (and parking was horrible), it was a fantastic day! |
Anonymous
Why couldn't there be a rain date for the stadium option? |
Anonymous
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Read, folks, read! Has been discussed on the following thread over and over:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1196729.page |