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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree, OP, it's odd.

But it's also odd to me that students don't come to school the week before graduation. Where I grew up, graduation was after your last final exam on the last day of school. Seniors went 180 days just like freshmen.

FCPS has decided it is critical to allow everyone to bring as many guests as they want to graduation rather than limit tickets, so there are limited facilities that work. They schedule 3 graduations a day (90 minute arrival, 2 hours graduation, 90 minute clean up/set up for next graduation)--so 5 hour slots = 3 per day.

If people were okay with limiting graduation tickets to 4 per graduate, they could do it in the gyms on the last day and families could sit in bleachers. But i suspect there'd be mutiny over that too.[/quote]What gym in the county holds enough for all the graduates, 4 guests and the teachers? [/quote]

Mount Vernon’s gym does - but the classes are small (under 500.)   They moved graduation in 2023 to GMU but held it in the stadium this year.  I’ve heard there was a scheduling conflict at GMU which caused the move.[/quote]

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