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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was not a fan of the UMBC graduation.  It felt very unspecial.  Maybe especially so because we had the morning slot in the middle of the week -- we had to get up really really early and fight rush hour traiffc and didn't invite the younger sibs or aunts/uncles because it would have meant everyone missing a whole day of school/work (more if they had to travel). So it was just like basically driving out to the middle of nowhere to go to a building that felt like a warehouse and sit there and listen to some politicians speak.  I guess it all flows from the fact that these high schools are just so enormous and impersonal.  I remember my own public HS graduation and it was a Friday night at our own HS -- so felt like our sort of last hurrah at the school.  I had nephews graduate from a small public HS in a small town and they did it basically at the town hall and it was a big local event. Our UMBC graduation basically felt like a very impersonal warehouse. Maybe a fitting end to the MCPS experience.

But in the general gist of all the things that are going wrong with the world, this ranks below the top million things I'm concerned about.  [/quote]

It is being used to promote the UMBC campus to MCPS graduates as a direction for college.  Sending all MCPS graduates and parents up there is to promote the use of UMBC since MCPS grads can’t reliably get into UM College Park anymore. This was set up in closed door negotiations.    [/quote]

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