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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People will give OP endless crap, but I just want to give them some empathy.  I was really shocked at how inconvenient and painful the whole graduation process was.  We had the early slot and my kid had to leave at like 6 am and fight through rush hour traffic to get there, and they were strictly warned that they would not be able to leave the lineup to get a drink or use the bathroom.  (It turned out that, like everything else, there was no real enforcement of that, but for the type A kids, it just made them really stressed about not eating or drinking anything in advance, in case they had to pee during the one hour line up.)  There are good things and bad things about MCPS but the massive impersonalized bureaucracy of it all, where you sometimes feel like a widget on a conveyer belt, is the worst of it.  I felt like graduation was the final capstone for that aspect of the education.

I went to public school in the 80s, and it wasn't all a bed of roses, but I did feel like our graduation was much more personal and relaxed.  It wasn't like "move it along -- we have another crowd of 10,000 coming in 45 minutes!".  Also, I don't remember having a bunch of politicians speak at my own graduation...that part was so painfully boring.  There were at least two politicians (I guess they always send someone from the Board of Ed?).  [/quote]
Yes!!

This is not my first rodeo with MCPS graduation. DC#1 graduated a few years ago, but our time slot then was like 2pm. Even then, it started late because the school before us took forever to get out.   And DC#1 didn't have to arrive *that* much earlier than my DC#2.  So, DC#1 didn't need a snack or a water bottle because we finished before 6.  We hand lunch at 11:30  nearby.   I thought that girls could not take a purse.

The speaker was really really boring. I saw DC with their head down, and I texted them asking if they were ok?  Were they feeling ill or something?  No, they said. They were just really bored.

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