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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]Why aren’t graduation at the schools football stadiums? That’s how most of us do it. [/quote]

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Now THAT is actual tradition. [/quote]

Not here where you get afternoon/evening thunderstorms, heat warnings or, like today, air quality issues.  Then the back up is the school gym with maybe 1 spectator per student, the rest in classrooms watching on CCTV.

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One LHS taxpayer alone could easily cover the cost of suitable covering of the bleachers. Fairfax county is run poorly because it is simply too big to be efficient. Plus, the whiny few dictate the setting and precedent, not the needs of the many. Also, sheer lack of common sense is prevelant. So, DAR it is. [/quote]

Not the PP to whom you're responding and not an LHS parent but...This post is boneheaded and privileged at the same time. "One LHS taxpayer alone could easily cover the cost" to somehow "cover the bleachers" with, what, an awning? You know this would need to be competitively contracted, it's not as cheap as you imagine it is (even for that super rich "one LHS taxpayer" donor you imagine) and the one day the awning gets stuck open would be graduation day...I get it, you hate DAR. So join with other parents to lobby to use GMU, instead of waiting for one sugar daddy donor to make your magical day happen the way you picture it.

[b]And no "cover" for outdoor bleachers makes much difference when the temperature and humidity are high. Sure, you can block some sun. But in 90-plus heat with this area's intense humidity, or during a thunderstorm, it won't help. Storms will still force everyone indoors due to lightning risk; lightning doesn't care about your "cover" unless it's an actual roof. Do you even really live in this area, that you don't know all this already?[/b] [/quote]

Other schools graduate in their own stadiums. Annandale, Fairfax, probably others. It would be easy enough to schedule them in the morning for when heat and humidity and thunderstorms aren’t an issue if everyone did their own.  Worst case it moves inside and everyone could still have multiple guests. Our gym holds the entire school, the graduating class would be on the floor, so at least 4 guests per student.

Not sure why the policy isn’t the same for everyone.

Bonus: it would save money.[/quote]

This.

How much is it to use DAR? [/quote]
I'm the PP who said there's no room at GMU and parents my kid's year asked all the questions. It's not cheaper to hold the graduation on the school field because they have to rent a lot of equipment to do so. It's cheaper to go in with three other schools and have the graduation at DAR. 
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It costs over 20k for a 3 hour reservation at GMU. What could they possibly have to rent that would cost $20k+? They already have a sound system from football games and pep rallies, a school full of chairs for students, bleachers for families.  Maybe a stage? Surely that is less than $20,000.[/quote]
Do you honestly think they'd have the speakers talk from the booth lol? They can't use that sound system for a graduation.[/quote]

Our pep rallies have microphones on speakers in the middle of the field, music played from the box.

I think for $20,000 we can get creative. That’s a boatload of money for a 3 hour rental.

And again, how do Annandale and Fairfax manage it from their fields? It clearly can be done.[/quote]

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