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[quote=Anonymous][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]

These schools - and others - were graduating at DAR back in the 70s and 80s and likely before then too.  It’s a longtime tradition that far precedes the social media age.  Are you new to the area?  Sure seems like it.  [/quote]

Um, Jan, my DH's family graduated from FCPS in the 90s and they did not go to DAR. Plus, tell me the size of the graduating class in 1970 and today's count and then we can discuss the logistics of a graduation at DAR vs. Eagle Bank. Are you new to basic math? Sure seems like it. [/quote]

My brother-in-law graduated from DAR in the early 1970's, a FCPS high school.  My DH is quite a bit younger than his siblings - he was in first or second grade when his brother graduated and remembers being super excited to miss school and go into DC to watch his brother graduate from high school.  It's his first memory of going into the "big city" and being in a "fancy building."  A couple of years later, the school stopped using DAR and my DH and his two sisters all graduated at the high school.  All three of them graduated from the same FCPS high school.[/quote]

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