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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We didn't get a "promotion ceremony" for my DS since he was promoted from 8th grade during COVID, but back when I was an 8th grader in MCPS, we did a graduation ceremony and parents of course attended. Same thing for 5th grade at the elementary level. Why would they not want parents to be present for that?[/quote]

It's completely gotten out of hand. It's the fault of the principals who wanted to look good for parents and MCPS. Students should be able to have fun and memorable activities, but a "graduation" for middle schools kids is absurd.[/quote]

I don’t know why you say “bottom out of hand” like this is a recent helicopter parent bing.  I had one in 1986 in my hometown.  My mother had one in the 1940s and when my grandmother taught middle school in the 1920s, they had an 8th grade graduation.  Three different states, three different decades.  I’m not really bent out of shape about it but it does seem to me kind of odd not to have anything.[/quote]

I had mine in California in the 1980s.  Call it a promotion. I feel like staff just don’t want to deal with it. [/quote]

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