Oh, it's much worse than you think. My Son (@7) has all ready had a pre-school graduation, kindergarden graduation & a first grade graduation. It cheapens the shit outta it. Back in the day not everyone went on to College and a HS diploma meant much more than it does today.Uzique wrote:
why the fuck do parents cry at graduation?
high-school is compulsory by law over here and 'graduating' basically means 'congrats you've been here for your time, here are some easy-as-fuck and mostly-worthless qualifications'.
i don't really understand the pomp and occasion with american high-school graduation. it's not as if you've just got a PhD.
kUzique wrote:
i was gonna suggest lower education standards/expectation but thought little crybabies like you would jump on and report such a ludicrous assumption
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I don't get it either. Commencement ceremonies are boring as hell anyway. You have to sit there, listen to some boring guy talk about what it means to be successful, etc... and then watch every.other.person get their diploma and the shenanigans they decide to pull because they are in the center of attention. Oh well...Uzique wrote:
why the fuck do parents cry at graduation?
high-school is compulsory by law over here and 'graduating' basically means 'congrats you've been here for your time, here are some easy-as-fuck and mostly-worthless qualifications'.
i don't really understand the pomp and occasion with american high-school graduation. it's not as if you've just got a PhD.
Did they give him a cap and gown? Someone at work was showing a pic and she thought it was hilarious that they had each kid pose in a cap and gown for a first grade 'graduation'.DBBrinson1 wrote:
Oh, it's much worse than you think. My Son (@7) has all ready had a pre-school graduation, kindergarden graduation & a first grade graduation. It cheapens the shit outta it. Back in the day not everyone went on to College and a HS diploma meant much more than it does today.Uzique wrote:
why the fuck do parents cry at graduation?
high-school is compulsory by law over here and 'graduating' basically means 'congrats you've been here for your time, here are some easy-as-fuck and mostly-worthless qualifications'.
i don't really understand the pomp and occasion with american high-school graduation. it's not as if you've just got a PhD.
Different cultures I guess... We did have a school of thought take hold a decade or two ago where no matter what -every kid got a trophy. It's a loser mentality that doesn't do the kids any favors. Now when they grow up, they expect people to celebrate thier most basic duties.Uzique wrote:
well, 20 years ago in england many people didn't go onto higher-education and university
and we still didn't have a stupid-ass self-congratulatory ceremony to gloriously pass on our terrific young O-Level academics
sorry im raining on the parade a little here: congrats cryan
what are you going to do with your life now you have reached the lofty heights of high-school graduation?
Yes he had a cap and gown... He spent the entire goddamn ceremony trying to bite the fucking tassel. *sighSenorToenails wrote:
Did they give him a cap and gown? Someone at work was showing a pic and she thought it was hilarious that they had each kid pose in a cap and gown for a first grade 'graduation'.
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Both my sons had cap and gowns during their pre-school graduation.SenorToenails wrote:
Did they give him a cap and gown? Someone at work was showing a pic and she thought it was hilarious that they had each kid pose in a cap and gown for a first grade 'graduation'.DBBrinson1 wrote:
Oh, it's much worse than you think. My Son (@7) has all ready had a pre-school graduation, kindergarden graduation & a first grade graduation. It cheapens the shit outta it. Back in the day not everyone went on to College and a HS diploma meant much more than it does today.Uzique wrote:
why the fuck do parents cry at graduation?
high-school is compulsory by law over here and 'graduating' basically means 'congrats you've been here for your time, here are some easy-as-fuck and mostly-worthless qualifications'.
i don't really understand the pomp and occasion with american high-school graduation. it's not as if you've just got a PhD.
Quoted for posterity, if and when you get kids.Uzique wrote:
honestly if i had kids, i wouldn't be so overwhelmed with emotion at their 'graduation' from secondary school with GCSE's
you can train a chimp to graduate at that level - it's all learning-by-rote at an elementary level
sure i'll be proud as hell if, hypothetically, i have children that actually graduate (i.e. from college)
school? congrats kid, you got pushed through an obligatory legal-requirement education curriculum, now jog on and actually achieve something
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graduated with a 5.3*, taking all IB/AP courses, was not that taxingIlocano wrote:
Quoted for posterity, if and when you get kids.Uzique wrote:
honestly if i had kids, i wouldn't be so overwhelmed with emotion at their 'graduation' from secondary school with GCSE's
you can train a chimp to graduate at that level - it's all learning-by-rote at an elementary level
sure i'll be proud as hell if, hypothetically, i have children that actually graduate (i.e. from college)
school? congrats kid, you got pushed through an obligatory legal-requirement education curriculum, now jog on and actually achieve something
Graduating is easy. Being valedictorian, with a GPA of at least 4.5 (taking all AP/Honors courses available), well, anyone claim that here? I can claim second, but aiming for number one for my kids. Yeah, they don't mean much once in Uni, but very important for getting those scholarships.
i graduated at high-school level as a valedictorian (or the english equivalent, anyway) and didnt even revise for my examsIlocano wrote:
Quoted for posterity, if and when you get kids.Uzique wrote:
honestly if i had kids, i wouldn't be so overwhelmed with emotion at their 'graduation' from secondary school with GCSE's
you can train a chimp to graduate at that level - it's all learning-by-rote at an elementary level
sure i'll be proud as hell if, hypothetically, i have children that actually graduate (i.e. from college)
school? congrats kid, you got pushed through an obligatory legal-requirement education curriculum, now jog on and actually achieve something
Graduating is easy. Being valedictorian, with a GPA of at least 4.5 (taking all AP/Honors courses available), well, anyone claim that here? I can claim second, but aiming for number one for my kids. Yeah, they don't mean much once in Uni, but very important for getting those scholarships.
goodeleven bravo wrote:
i dropped out when I was 17 and got my ged
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The fuck? Did you go to one of those insanely bloated GPA schools? People think it's absurd that my school based AP classes on a 5.0 scale, and even then the highest possible GPA by the end is around 4.5 IIRC.Bevo wrote:
graduated with a 5.3*, taking all IB/AP courses, was not that taxing
*- we got +10pts on our GPA calculated grades for taking AP/IB courses, I'm guessing if you ignored that and averaged it in with athletics and required standard classes my average GPA would be around 4.7
I dunno what exactly you meanDesertFox- wrote:
The fuck? Did you go to one of those insanely bloated GPA schools? People think it's absurd that my school based AP classes on a 5.0 scale, and even then the highest possible GPA by the end is around 4.5 IIRC.Bevo wrote:
graduated with a 5.3*, taking all IB/AP courses, was not that taxing
*- we got +10pts on our GPA calculated grades for taking AP/IB courses, I'm guessing if you ignored that and averaged it in with athletics and required standard classes my average GPA would be around 4.7
Ah, so you only got 4.3 in our scaling system.. 4.0 is the max if you don't take any AP/Honors courses here in SoCal.Bevo wrote:
I dunno what exactly you meanDesertFox- wrote:
The fuck? Did you go to one of those insanely bloated GPA schools? People think it's absurd that my school based AP classes on a 5.0 scale, and even then the highest possible GPA by the end is around 4.5 IIRC.Bevo wrote:
graduated with a 5.3*, taking all IB/AP courses, was not that taxing
*- we got +10pts on our GPA calculated grades for taking AP/IB courses, I'm guessing if you ignored that and averaged it in with athletics and required standard classes my average GPA would be around 4.7
100 avg in all regular classes resulted in a GPA of 5.0 afaik
100 avg in all AP/IB classes (which is not possible obviously) resulted in a GPA of 6.0
Valedictorian was 5.5 or so I think, I was 8th in a class of 550.
Yeah it varies I'm sure, it's on a point by point basis though not like here at UT where they do A/B/C and for some classes A/A-/B+/B etc. If an A in an AP/IB class always resulted in 5 grade points, my GPA would be higher..Ilocano wrote:
Ah, so you only got 4.3 in our scaling system.. 4.0 is the max if you don't take any AP/Honors courses here in SoCal.Bevo wrote:
I dunno what exactly you meanDesertFox- wrote:
The fuck? Did you go to one of those insanely bloated GPA schools? People think it's absurd that my school based AP classes on a 5.0 scale, and even then the highest possible GPA by the end is around 4.5 IIRC.
100 avg in all regular classes resulted in a GPA of 5.0 afaik
100 avg in all AP/IB classes (which is not possible obviously) resulted in a GPA of 6.0
Valedictorian was 5.5 or so I think, I was 8th in a class of 550.
If you cry at a highschool graduation, you are probably retarded.Ryan wrote:
Yea but it's the atmosphere. Around 300 grads, 800 or so people in the audience. Some will be crying, others clapping, etc.ghettoperson wrote:
What exactly is there to be nervous about? You walk on, shake someones hand, walk off.
Just hard to imagine how 12 years went by so fast, and how the ceremonies will be over in like 3 hours.
