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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IMO cords are dumb. I went to MIT and it didn't allow anything. In a crazy rat race we don't need even more mini races that don't matter. [/quote]

It used to be that we made a very big deal out of post-graduate degrees, a big deal out of college graduation, and a minor deal out of high school graduation.

Now, we make a huge deal out of high school graduation (even throwing parties that cost $10K or more), and we expect promotion ceremonies and major school awards at the end of preschool, kindergarten, sixth grade, and eighth grade.

It has gotten way out of hand.[/quote]

So what? People can celebrate how they want to. [/quote]

Fine, you can celebrate how you choose. But expecting the schools to host major awards and promotion ceremonies, give trophies for having a pulse, and allow for [b]obscene displays of grandiosity at graduation is out of hand[/b].[/quote]

So now an NHS stole and a service cord are “obscene displays of grandiosity”? You sound insane.[/quote]

Aren't most college-bound kids in NHS? Doesn't seem like it's worth any special fanfare. 
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Wearing a cord or a stole to show what academic honor societies you are in is not fanfare. It’s simply a nice tradition and both parents and students appreciate it. If you don’t care, then either have your child not even join NHS or choose not to have your child wear any cords or stoles showing what honor societies they were in. I really don’t care what you think. [/quote]

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