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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, could you please articulate why this is important to you/your kid?

(To be clear, I ask this question as the parent of kids who do very well academically, and their graduation accessories are not something that matters to me, so I'm trying to understand where you're coming from.)[/quote]

The reasoning the kids were given is to protect the feelings of those who don't have honor cords -- who (whether voluntarily or involuntarily) decided not to join the honor societies or organizations that the honor cords denote. So, some kids are not being allowed to celebrate their hard won success to protect the fragility of others.

This is the same thing as the "participation trophy" in kindergarten soccer - -except now we are talking about adults about to enter the real world.[/quote]

That’s your take.

My take is they can[b] list honors in the graduation program[/b] without families springing for all these miscellaneous cords and stoles that are now way over the top.

If the kids just wear their graduation gowns we’ll also avoid the annual outrage when some students are wearing stoles with political connotations.  [/quote]

That will be the next to go. Larlo's feelings, and his family's feelings, will he hurt because it says nothing next to his name. "It's not fair!!!"[/quote]To bad Larlo was vaping in the bathrooms, having unprotected sex with several different girls and guys, and going to parties he wasn’t invited to because he’s a lowlife sack of crap with alcohol, maybe he would have been better off.[/quote]

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