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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Getting goosebumps and feeling "honored" to watch a public high school graduation is the kind of reaction I would expect from a rural mid-westerner or immigrant from a developing country. I can't imagine the self-importance coursing through your veins if public high school graduation at DAR gets you this worked up.[/quote]

I don't think that there's anything wrong with being honored to watch the graduation. Many families, despite where they're from, are rightly proud. This issue is with insisting that the ceremony itself must take place in a "prestigious" venue. That's ridiculous, though I believe that is likely by-product of the Instagramable generation and life that we now lead. Many (if not most) parents clamoring for DAR likely want to picture op and post at DAR than the do the actual experience. Everything now has to be post worthy so that's more than likely the push. Prestige over function, it would seem[/quote]

That makes a lot of sense apart from the fact that several of these schools were graduating at DAR long before there was a Facebook or an Instagram.

Do you have any other explanations?  Like maybe it's just a tradition and some people think it's an attractive venue despite some of the other inconveniences.  Not sure it requires over-thinking. [/quote]

THIS ^^.  The overwrought drama over this makes it clear these people are professional whiners.[/quote]

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