Is graduation for kids or parents?

Posted on Jun 16 1999

Why do kindergartners have graduation? Is it for the children or for the parents? It seems like having completion or graduation ceremonies after kinder and after 6th grade and 8th grade is too much. The point is to complete your education. That is what graduation means.

All the money and effort spent on “part way there” or “might not get any farther” graduation ceremonies could help the school or start a big savings account, or add to a scholarship for the children so they have some money to go to college, after the real graduation after 12th grade.

Maybe if you ask the kinder, 6th and 8th, the kids would rather have a nice party. All these extra graduations take away from the big one. If you have already had three by the time you graduate, it lowers the value of that main one.

Another alternative would be to have an Honors Day Party for children and parents at the end of the year for each grade to receive honors for their classes. Who are these in between graduations really for?

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