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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]boy people complaint about EVERYTHING. damn spoiled americans.[/quote]

You know, a discussion about options seems reasonable. Constitution Hall is hardly simple for VA graduations. It's a beautiful venue but if you're trying to accommodate hundreds if not thousands of folks coming in from the suburbs -- and sometimes the far suburbs, as Fairfax to DC isn't an easy stretch, there are going to be kinks and maybe there are options our schools haven't considered out of pure inertia.[/quote]

We just did it last week for the second time. It is not that hard.  People commute every day to nearly the same location, in traffic, with parking issues.  It is a lovely location for a graduation and worth any perceived hassle.  It is one day out of the thousands that your DC attended school. [/quote]

Let's see how the perceived hassle strikes you when you're wrangling 2 wheelchairs and a rush-hour arrival time.[/quote]
Your assumption is incorrect. 
With the first one we had a wheelchair for my father and with the second one my DH had a broken leg.  It still was not as much of a hassle as other things we have done with the wheelchair.  While we did not start at rush hour, we ended at rush hour.  So I have an idea.  Planning to arrive early is the way to beat rush hour.  The side accessible entrance worked perfectly fine with the wheelchair and for my DH.  [/quote]

I'm glad it worked out for you. We arrived an hour ahead of time to unload at the wheelchair-accessible area. We were yelled at when we briefly parked in order to have one person unload the wheelchair and user. A school vehicle behind us honked for the few minutes it took for this procedure. When unloaded, the staff member wouldn't allow us to remain in that accessible area because the previous school was about to come out. And when it was time for our school's ceremony to begin, all persons with needs and their maximum 2 family members assembled as directed at this entrance, only to be told 10 minutes before the ceremony began that we would not be permitted to enter and had to use 18th street instead. Everyone there rebelled until someone finally told us we could enter. And once in, there were so few wheelchair accessible seating areas that we had to split up our party.

I think Constitution Hall would have been an incredible venue if only able-bodied family members were attending. We would have happily Metroed in and taken our time with photos outside the hall and on the Mall. Then we would have Ubered or Metroed home at our own pace. The reality is grandparents and others with needs just can't access this venue. And because it's graduation, there are going to be a lot more people with needs than at a typical event there. Constitution Hall is from a different era and it simply can't accommodate these kinds of crowds every 2 hours.[/quote]

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