Anonymous wrote:Way to read the room and really assess where things stand with an eye to safety and good health for everyone! I'm sure grandma dying would really put the shine on commencement.

Grandma has likely been vaccinated, you idiot.

Anonymous wrote:If my kid's school couldn't figure out a way to do SOMETHING besides kids watching from behind a laptop in their houses, I'd probably be upset too. Especially given the fact that we've been on a great track for the past few weeks with COVID, numbers are going way down, and more and more people are getting vaccinated.

What am I missing?

You're missing absolutely nothing except the mainstream media narrative that we all need to be locked in our basements, with two masks on, scared to death until every risk that exists in life has been eliminated. After all, that fear keeps us glued to the TV and newspapers and keeps their ratings up. They need something to fill the Trump void.

If my kid's school couldn't figure out a way to do SOMETHING besides kids watching from behind a laptop in their houses, I'd probably be upset too. Especially given the fact that we've been on a great track for the past few weeks with COVID, numbers are going way down, and more and more people are getting vaccinated.

What am I missing?

My DS refuses to go to graduation. For my kid, this has been great, but for most kids, this is a crappy senior year. My DS has been ready to move on for a while.

What a bunch of drama lamas!


My 2020 senior had a driveby graduation and it ended up being nice. We all got like 30 seconds with the staff for pictures (in special school masks) and cap and gowns. The cars were decorated and we also drove around the neighborhoods and people clapped from their yards.

The original plan was to have it outside in the stadium but the weather was bad. In that version, students would walk across the stage, and the parents would greet them on the other side and they'd leave together. It was to be televised on community TV. I do know of other districts that did it this way and it was lovely and they have great pictures from the event.

Oh, and nobody's Grandma died. Sheez.

My Class of 2022 DD is still waiting for the Prom to be rescheduled

Anonymous wrote:Way to read the room and really assess where things stand with an eye to safety and good health for everyone! I'm sure grandma dying would really put the shine on commencement.

Hyperbolic statements are completely unnecessary, there is always a happy medium to every problem, you are part of the problem and not the solution, get a life.

I don't care anymore. At this point I have accepted that I will *have to stay locked in my house* until at least 2022.

Go for it, and create herd immunity for me people. Be sure to bring grandma along too, so she won't be around too much longer to suck up all the social security.

grandma dying? what are you even talking about? many 65+ have been vaxed, and by graduation season the vast majority who want it will have gotten it. Do I think a shoulder-to-shoulder style graduation a la 2019 and before is going to be safe by may or june? no, definitely not, and I don't know anyone who is suggesting that. but the "THINK ABOUT THE ELDERLY!!!11!!!!" hysterics don't work anymore, sorry. cases are plummeting, more and more people are being vaccinated by the day, and there's no reason why there can't be SOME form of in-person "graduation" come late May or June. a drive through or drive in graduation; a socially distant outdoor graduation where each kid can only have 2 guests or whatever...there are so many options besides having kids graduate from behind a computer screen.

If you want to stay locked in your house until 2024 that's fine, but don't force your mental illness on the rest of us.

I have a high school senior, not a college senior, but I completely agree with the OP. Not necessary. I cringe when the school board discusses it. Worry about what's most important, not ceremonies.

In-person should be reserved for important occasions such as medical appointments, etc... and possible education.

But parties?

Are you that crazy and entitled that you believe your senior will be traumatized for life if they don't get their graduation ceremony in-person?????

Ridiculous.

Anonymous wrote:Way to read the room and really assess where things stand with an eye to safety and good health for everyone! I'm sure grandma dying would really put the shine on commencement.

Grandma doesn't need to go.

--parent of a class of '20 grad that really doesn't want to see another class miss out.

Anonymous wrote:Way to read the room and really assess where things stand with an eye to safety and good health for everyone! I'm sure grandma dying would really put the shine on commencement.

Where do you place "Drive by" graduations. Those aren't virtual, but seem entirely safe. Not perfect, but surely more fun than virtual. EVERYTHING has been virtual this year-- it would be nice to have something that is a bit different than that. Decorating the family car and hollering and honking when your child has their name read seems a lot better than just hunkered around a computer screen. I get that not every family has a car-- maybe they could rent or a friend will let them borrow a car for one day.

Most people don't care about safety for others. Move on.

Way to read the room and really assess where things stand with an eye to safety and good health for everyone! I'm sure grandma dying would really put the shine on commencement.