Why is our graduation at Eagle Bank???!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DAR is horrible. Racist past, no parking, limited tickets.

Hi again, OP! Your trolling was entertaining at first, now it's just tiresome. Run along.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Only the top high schools get DAR as their graduation venue. McLean, Langley, Madison, Marshall.

Eagle Bank is for the riffraff.

Nice trolling, but no. Those four schools got together and agreed to share a day at DAR. You need four schools per day there for the time slots. If four other schools did the same thing, they could also graduate at DAR.
DP

Arlington only has three high schools, but they manage to do the DAR graduations on the same day. Arlington does it there because it’s the closest large venue.

Actually, there’s a movement to change this. Many APS parents are tired of the hassle with not having enough tickets for their family so working to hopefully change the venue in the next 3 to 4 years.

This is such BS. Nice try, troll!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Only the top high schools get DAR as their graduation venue. McLean, Langley, Madison, Marshall.

Eagle Bank is for the riffraff.

It’s because of proximity. Those four FCPS schools happen to be closest to DAR. Arlington also does DAR.

The closest FCPS high school to DAR is Justice, followed by Langley and West Potomac. McLean, Marshall, and Falls Church are then all about the same distance. Madison is further away from DAR than those six schools, as well as Edison and Lewis.

These four schools graduate at DAR because of relative proximity, tradition, and no one having decided it would be too inconvenient for a significant number of guests. But they aren't the closest.

DP. The PP was incorrect - it isn't due to proximity. The reason has already been explained and there is nothing stopping other FCPS schools from pairing up and graduating at DAR too.

[Anonymous]

I have 4 kids in FFC. Every single one has graduated at Eagle Bank.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of the high schools are pushing 3000 students.

According to the locals, FCPS switched to GMU and other indoor venues sometime in the early 90s when a torrential thunderstorm/hail/tornado warnings occured in the middle of graduation night ceremonies.

Everyone had to run for cover inside the school.


They put grads in the gym and everyone else in various locations inside and tried to finish using the PA system.

Then the power went out

My long time resident neighbors said after that disaster, fcps switched to indoor venue graduations.

They do the same thing in the midwest city that I grew up in. Same reasons of an unfortunate spring tornado warning and hail hitting in the middle of graduation ceremonies.

The graduations of small schools are in their respective schools.

Graduations of all the large schools are at the convention center.

WSHS, Class of 1989!

It was a mess.

Yes most all the local public high schools had football stadium (or gym during rain storms) graduations until the 90s. The local public schools also hosted the nice graduation week Baccalaureate services for seniors and their families held in a local church, but I think that was phased out in the 90s, for obvious reasons. Graduation week was full of events in the olden days.

I graduated from a FCPS high school in the late 80s and it was held at DAR. One of the four schools which currently graduate there.

[Anonymous]

Every spring, like clockwork, some disgruntled troll pops up to complain about graduation venues. Never fails.

[Anonymous]

Can't believe the people on this forum live in the same county that I do and that these are actual real people presumably with children. Just, wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought all FCPS Schools graduated at DAR. Apparently not. Our school is doing their ceremony at GMU. Seriously? A horrendous venue in a mediocre part of Fairfax County. The arena is a literal box and feels like a warehouse more than a venue. Horrendous lighting and acoustics. FCPS is again cutting corners.

Oh no! Not a “mediocre past of the county!”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can't believe the people on this forum live in the same county that I do and that these are actual real people presumably with children. Just, wow.

I wouldn’t assume any of that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every spring, like clockwork, some disgruntled troll pops up to complain about graduation venues. Never fails.

They’re just biding their time for another almost two weeks before they can post another perennial favorite, Why Do Dog Moms Get To Celebrate Mother’s Day OMG IT’S NOT FAAAAAIIIIIRRRR!”

[Anonymous]

My kids graduated at DAR - it was a pain in the ass. We took Metro with a 80-something grandparent (parking seemed impossible) and it was 90+ degrees. Oh and they rush you in and out.

I graduated in a class of 200 in a small town in PA. We had our graduation in the auditorium or arena of a Christian college the next town over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids graduated at DAR - it was a pain in the ass. We took Metro with a 80-something grandparent (parking seemed impossible) and it was 90+ degrees. Oh and they rush you in and out.

I graduated in a class of 200 in a small town in PA. We had our graduation in the auditorium or arena of a Christian college the next town over.

Why on earth didn't you take an Uber with an elderly grandparent on a scorching day?

[Anonymous]

In 2021 my kid’s ceremony was in the HS football stadium and honestly it was pretty great. The weather was good, which made a huge difference, but just that they got the moment mattered the most. This time we are at Eagle Bank and I just don’t see what the big deal is. We can have as many people as we want, weather won’t matter, and we don’t have to deal with DC traffic. Plus, concessions to distract my younger kids. I’m good.

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Anonymous wrote:Only the top high schools get DAR as their graduation venue. McLean, Langley, Madison, Marshall.

Eagle Bank is for the riffraff.

Nice trolling, but no. Those four schools got together and agreed to share a day at DAR. You need four schools per day there for the time slots. If four other schools did the same thing, they could also graduate at DAR.
DP

Arlington only has three high schools, but they manage to do the DAR graduations on the same day. Arlington does it there because it’s the closest large venue.

Actually, there’s a movement to change this. Many APS parents are tired of the hassle with not having enough tickets for their family so working to hopefully change the venue in the next 3 to 4 years.

This is such BS. Nice try, troll!

Huh? This is not trolling, there’s a group of parents from multiple high schools, who are going to take this to the school board.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DAR is horrible. Racist past, no parking, limited tickets.

Hi again, OP! Your trolling was entertaining at first, now it's just tiresome. Run along.

I am the PP and I am not OP. Have you even read the thread? OP wants Dar. I think DAR is horrible.