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Reply to "When did we start calling it "promotion" or "graduation" from various grades?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a culture we've actually diminished a lot of rites of passage and celebrations that were around for millenia (like girls letting down their skirts to show they were adults and of marriagable age in the 1800s...we let that one go for good reason of course). The fact that we're finding replacement things to celebrate is a good thing. Human communities need occasions to come together and be joyous. It's also a nice way to mark a transition from one school to the next.[/quote] I don't have a problem with an end-of-year party to celebrate the transition from one grade to another, but I think the pomp and circumstance and making little kids wear robes is just kind of ridiculous and it's not really age-appropriate to make them go through the whole ritual of a graduation ceremony. That being said, kids in robes look so stinking cute so I understand the impulse[/quote]
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