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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Of course those two alone are not obscene, but a kid wearing 12-20 cords plus 4-6 medals, which they purchased online, is obscene.[/quote]

You must be from Maryland or Loudoyn, or perhaps California.

FCPS (Fairfax County, Virginia) does not allow cords that students purchase on Amazon.  Those get thrown in the trash or taken back to the high schools when the admin checks in the students for graduation.

FCPS (again, Fairfax County Virginia, NOT maryland or Loudoun or whatever state where you are from) is very strict about only allowing cords on the approved list.

No student will be able to get 20 cords.  It just is not possible.

Those of you from other districts should not be commenting here.[/quote]

I'm from FCPS. No one checked cords at any of my kids' graduations, and there were definitely kids with 12+ cords.

My neighbor bragged about buying cords and medals on Amazon for both of her kids. No one checked any of their cords and medals.[/quote]

What achool?

I am highly skeptical of your post[/quote]

I teach at an FCPS school. No one takes away fake/amazon cords. Kids wear whatever they want.[/quote]

The adult and alternative high schools graduating at the end of the week?  Of course.  Let them buy cords on Amazon.  Who cares.

Who else is left after today?

Lake Braddock, Robinson, Herndon and Madison?

I am pretty sure Lake Braddock and Robinson limit cords to the approved.  I would imagine that Madison does as well.

I can't speak to Herndon as I don't know any kids from there.[/quote]

Robinsons graduation was cord/stole/medal crazy. The kids literally clanked around as they walked and had to hold medals to their chest to silence them as they walked.

The program lists 3 medals (4.0+ gpa, department award recipient, IB diploma candidate), 1 stole (nhs), and a whopping 25 cords.

Cords:
ATL portfolio completion
College partnership program with a certain gpa
College partnership program participant
Multilingual proficiency (testing out of ESOL)
English honor society
German honor society
Thespian honor society
Latin honor society
Math honor society
Art honor society
Business honor society
Geospatial technology honor society
Social studies honor society
Science honor society
Spanish honor society
Eagle Scout
Girl Scout (cord for being a scout, pins for silver/gold awards)
Entering military service after graduation
Being from a military family
Student equity ambassador
Service learning
DECA member
FBLA member
Mental health support club member
Key club member

Plus kids had a lot of ethnic/national stoles (lots of Bolivia ones and Pan-African ones), pins from various achievements throughout high school like band achievements or sports accomplishments, stoles for various branches of the military, some that just said “class of 2026” in Robinson’s blue/gold colors, braided ribbon leis, and one kid who had a lei made of cash.

I really don’t give a hoot if kids wear it all or not, but it’s waaaaaaaay more than the short “official” list someone posted a while back.[/quote]

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