Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I for one certainly hope DAR remains the graduation venue for my kids' school. We've been looking forward to seeing them graduate there for years.

I hope you have no grandparents or disabled family members who are looking forward to it. It's an ordeal for them.

Anonymous wrote:Well, I for one certainly hope DAR remains the graduation venue for my kids' school. We've been looking forward to seeing them graduate there for years.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I for one certainly hope DAR remains the graduation venue for my kids' school. We've been looking forward to seeing them graduate there for years.

You need a hobby or something that will stop you from living vicariously through your kids, who I can assure you don’t care where their graduation occurs.

Anonymous wrote:Well, I for one certainly hope DAR remains the graduation venue for my kids' school. We've been looking forward to seeing them graduate there for years.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why people are complaining. There is at least one school in Loudoun that had graduation at EagleBank.

People are complaining because this site’s regulars truly have nothing better to do than obsess over meaningless garbage that their kids won’t remember.

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why people are complaining. There is at least one school in Loudoun that had graduation at EagleBank.

Anonymous wrote:I believe someone or someones at Gatehouse is getting a kickback or at the very least significant admission perks for getting that contract signed again.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why aren’t graduation at the schools football stadiums? That’s how most of us do it.

x10000

Now THAT is actual tradition.

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.

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.

Well, that's definitely what we're seeing on this thread. Actually, every year there is a new group of whiners who think if they complain loudly enough, all the other parents will follow their lead. What they (you) seem to be missing is just how many parents actually LIKE going to DAR for graduation. You may not think it's special and memorable, but tons of others do and in fact, look forward to the day their kids graduate there. Also, leave the "LHS taxpayer" out of this. We're all public school parents and we don't ask certain people to pay more.

Take a survey to prove it if you think people really truly prefer to drive into DC during rush hour traffic, and pay to park in a very crowded garage just to see their kid graduate in the lovely setting of DAR.

No one needs to “take a survey.” Graduations are at DAR and will continue to be so.

+1
Though I almost wish this loud minority *would* put out a survey so they could see the results for themselves, instead of insisting everyone is a malcontent like them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, be grateful. It took many parents two hours to get in, get parking, and get into the building - these are people who live 20 minutes away.

There is mad construction at every turn, and one important fact to note: DAR Constitution Hall does NOT admit you if you are late! You have to wait until well after Pomp and Circumstance (you will miss your graduate/s entering the venue), and after the Pledge of Allegiance, etc. If you are late.

The doors are literally locked and staff will not let you in until well into the ceremony. Plan accordingly!

Seems like a no-brainer to just take an Uber.

I wasn’t aware that they had Jetsons car Ubers that fly over traffic jams. Weird.

Anonymous wrote:I believe someone or someones at Gatehouse is getting a kickback or at the very least significant admission perks for getting that contract signed again.

Anonymous wrote:

Two events per day.... Jam packed arena... ... is good Bu$ine$$ for GMU.

Anonymous wrote:Are These Open To the Public?