Anonymous
06/09/2026 08:17
Subject: No more Honor Cords, Stoles etc at future FCPS Graduations?
Graduation is the culmination of your whole childhood chapter. Let them have one moment in time to pull it all together. If they want to wear a cord, let it be. Geez.
Anonymous
06/09/2026 08:17
Subject: No more Honor Cords, Stoles etc at future FCPS Graduations?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why is there a Girl Scout/Boy Scout cord but no cords for sports?
Why would there be cords for sports? Also, for those with younger kids who might not know, although FCPS includes an official list of the cords in the program, most of those are purchased by the student, not FCPS. My DC received a service hours cord from FCPS, but her other cords were paid for from the dues to the activity.
Cords are for service and academics only. Not sports. Girl Scouts/Boy Scouts are about service - that’s why they get cords.
Anonymous
06/09/2026 08:09
Subject: No more Honor Cords, Stoles etc at future FCPS Graduations?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Troll.
I assure you I'm not. I have a rising HS Senior who came home last week and told me this news. I'm trying to corroborate this information here before I send my feedback directly to Michelle Reid!
I will ask DD, who graduates tomorrow
I am so thankful to be DONE with FCPS and the continuing decline, through mismanagement, of what was once a great school system. Reid and the SB are 100% at fault here.
And yet you will no doubt vote them all back in.
Anonymous
06/09/2026 08:07
Subject: No more Honor Cords, Stoles etc at future FCPS Graduations?
Anonymous wrote:Why is there a Girl Scout/Boy Scout cord but no cords for sports?
Why would there be cords for sports? Also, for those with younger kids who might not know, although FCPS includes an official list of the cords in the program, most of those are purchased by the student, not FCPS. My DC received a service hours cord from FCPS, but her other cords were paid for from the dues to the activity.
Anonymous
06/09/2026 07:38
Subject: No more Honor Cords, Stoles etc at future FCPS Graduations?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:IMO cords are dumb. I went to MIT and it didn't allow anything. In a crazy rat race we don't need even more mini races that don't matter.
+1
It used to be that we made a very big deal out of post-graduate degrees, a big deal out of college graduation, and a minor deal out of high school graduation.
Now, we make a huge deal out of high school graduation (even throwing parties that cost $10K or more), and we expect promotion ceremonies and major school awards at the end of preschool, kindergarten, sixth grade, and eighth grade.
It has gotten way out of hand.
So what? People can celebrate how they want to.
Anonymous
06/09/2026 07:38
Subject: No more Honor Cords, Stoles etc at future FCPS Graduations?
Anonymous wrote:IMO cords are dumb. I went to MIT and it didn't allow anything. In a crazy rat race we don't need even more mini races that don't matter.
+1
It used to be that we made a very big deal out of post-graduate degrees, a big deal out of college graduation, and a minor deal out of high school graduation.
Now, we make a huge deal out of high school graduation (even throwing parties that cost $10K or more), and we expect promotion ceremonies and major school awards at the end of preschool, kindergarten, sixth grade, and eighth grade.
It has gotten way out of hand.
Anonymous
06/09/2026 07:32
Subject: No more Honor Cords, Stoles etc at future FCPS Graduations?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:IMO cords are dumb. I went to MIT and it didn't allow anything. In a crazy rat race we don't need even more mini races that don't matter.
+1
Unnecessary cash grab.
They aren’t very expensive at all and if the kids want them to show off their achievements, let them.
Anonymous
06/09/2026 07:04
Subject: No more Honor Cords, Stoles etc at future FCPS Graduations?
Anonymous wrote:IMO cords are dumb. I went to MIT and it didn't allow anything. In a crazy rat race we don't need even more mini races that don't matter.
+1
Unnecessary cash grab.
Anonymous
06/09/2026 06:59
Subject: No more Honor Cords, Stoles etc at future FCPS Graduations?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP, could you please articulate why this is important to you/your kid?
(To be clear, I ask this question as the parent of kids who do very well academically, and their graduation accessories are not something that matters to me, so I'm trying to understand where you're coming from.)
The reasoning the kids were given is to protect the feelings of those who don't have honor cords -- who (whether voluntarily or involuntarily) decided not to join the honor societies or organizations that the honor cords denote. So, some kids are not being allowed to celebrate their hard won success to protect the fragility of others.
This is the same thing as the "participation trophy" in kindergarten soccer - -except now we are talking about adults about to enter the real world.
Troll
Anonymous
06/09/2026 06:55
Subject: No more Honor Cords, Stoles etc at future FCPS Graduations?
Why is there a Girl Scout/Boy Scout cord but no cords for sports?
Anonymous
06/08/2026 23:43
Subject: No more Honor Cords, Stoles etc at future FCPS Graduations?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The cords and stoles are completely out of control. It is ridiculous.
+1
One of my friends posted her DD's grad photo and she had TEN cords. It was ridiculous.
I would like to send her our introductory package of the car magnets/stickers, inspirational frames, and very noticeable yard signs to put a name of your future college on it. We use reflecting paint for our yard signs, so that even in the dark every car passing by your house can see it clearly. Selling out fast!
What a petty poster
Anonymous
06/08/2026 23:42
Subject: No more Honor Cords, Stoles etc at future FCPS Graduations?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The cords and stoles are completely out of control. It is ridiculous.
+1
One of my friends posted her DD's grad photo and she had TEN cords. It was ridiculous.
I would like to send her our introductory package of the car magnets/stickers, inspirational frames, and very noticeable yard signs to put a name of your future college on it. We use reflecting paint for our yard signs, so that even in the dark every car passing by your house can see it clearly. Selling out fast!
Anonymous
06/08/2026 23:33
Subject: No more Honor Cords, Stoles etc at future FCPS Graduations?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Troll.
I assure you I'm not. I have a rising HS Senior who came home last week and told me this news. I'm trying to corroborate this information here before I send my feedback directly to Michelle Reid!
Don't worry, OP. There are many other ways to brag about your child's and family superiority in the Fairfax school system suburbia. Can I sell you some yard signs and car magnets, stickers, and vanity plates? How about some frames for the HS transcripts?
Anonymous
06/08/2026 22:15
Subject: Re:No more Honor Cords, Stoles etc at future FCPS Graduations?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So will FCPS employee also then not wear their stoles for masters or phd? Just writing that makes this is all just silly now- the ceremony is for the pomp and circumstance so if not doing that, just email the diplomas in a .pdf file. If took vote, many would likely vote for that.
Are you for real? You think HS honor cords and an entire post-graduate degree are equivalent and therefore belong in the same category of restriction? Do you know how ignorant you sound when you write things like that?
Someone hit a nerve with you! JFC. Dial it down a notch.
If cords motivates a kid to stay in school and graduate, let them have cords. Who cares!
Anonymous
06/08/2026 22:02
Subject: No more Honor Cords, Stoles etc at future FCPS Graduations?
IMO cords are dumb. I went to MIT and it didn't allow anything. In a crazy rat race we don't need even more mini races that don't matter.