I will say, our family members who couldn’t make it really appreciated the well-produced streaming video.
Given the usual MCPS challenges with anything technology-related, I was concerned that it would just be a grainy, static wide-shot of the stage, and they wouldn’t be able to make out much at all. But it turns out they actually had a better view of our graduate being handed her diploma than we did, up in the nosebleed seats.
And they were able to do it from the comfort of their own home. We just texted them a few minutes before we expected our senior to cross the stage, in case they’d nodded off, or nipped out for a snack.