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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My stepdaughter (17) found out she might not be able participate in commencement because a cap and gown wasn’t ordered in time and now it’s too late. She had really wanted to walk. Things like this are really important to her. Since finding this out, she’s saying she just won’t finish what she still needs to graduate. Instead, she says she’ll enroll again next spring so she can participate in commencement.

Now she’s also saying she may enroll in a different school entirely because they have a different graduation ceremony — better theme, etc. She says she doesn’t even like the location of her current school’s graduation anyway, or the fact that it’s on a Tuesday, or the time of day, and she doesn’t like the gown pattern either. She says the whole thing wouldn’t make her feel good or in the mood of graduation, or feel excited about dressing up, so she wouldn’t put any effort into it, so she’d rather wait and do it somewhere else, even if she gets a cap and gown for her current schools.

I understand being disappointed, but purposely delaying graduation over not being able to walk, and other ceremonial issues feels completely irrational to me. Has anyone dealt with a teen getting this fixated on the symbolic/social side of graduation?

We’ve contacted her counselor, and we’re waiting to hear back on whether they have a cap and gown in her size or not. Her counselor didn’t seem very optimistic, and I’m so worried.[/quote]

This can’t possibly be true.[/quote]

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