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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree, OP, it's odd.

But it's also odd to me that students don't come to school the week before graduation. Where I grew up, graduation was after your last final exam on the last day of school. Seniors went 180 days just like freshmen.

FCPS has decided it is critical to allow everyone to bring as many guests as they want to graduation rather than limit tickets, so there are limited facilities that work. They schedule 3 graduations a day (90 minute arrival, 2 hours graduation, 90 minute clean up/set up for next graduation)--so 5 hour slots = 3 per day.

If people were okay with limiting graduation tickets to 4 per graduate, they could do it in the gyms on the last day and families could sit in bleachers. But i suspect there'd be mutiny over that too.[/quote]

I would bet money that your high school in the 1980s did not go a full month after AP exams and classwork ended, just to sit in the building through mid June with nothing to do but watch movies (June 17th in the case of next year's seniors, which is more than a month after the last AP exam.)[/quote]

Well Jim-Bo, you’d lose that bet because that’s exactly what happened and has been happening.

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Your old high school has a full month of school with no work until they graduate mid june in your school gym?

What small town does this?

Most FCPS senior classes are too large for the students to all be in the gym for a grad ceremony.  The biggest high school auditoriums in FCPS only seat around 1200, which would not allow the students to all bring even one parent.

In FCPS, since you are not familiar with this area, seniors finish all their finals and work when the AP tests end, which is mid May.  Your school district way back when might have senior finals in June, perhaps because not many kids took AP tests way back then.  But that is not how FCPS and high schools work now.

No one wants to keep the seniors in school through mid to late June, just so they can all have graduation the same day in their high school gyms.

It is a terrible suggestion.[/quote]

+1 
Not to mention, many FCPS high schools let their seniors do a two-week internship during the period after AP exams are over and graduation.  [/quote]

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