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Boxerfan

(2,533 posts) Thu Apr 25, 2019, 07:50 PM Apr 2019

Grumpy old man rant. My Daughter's HS graduation ceremony is at a freakin stadium.

And at night. For 3 hours with downtown ambiance & fine parking.

WTF folks this is High School not a College and having the ceremony that far away makes it a royal pain in the hiney for somebody who might be disabled or just can't drive at night for whatever reason.

I want to go but there is no way I can do this drive walk pay$$ fandango. Calling the school was useless.

WHY?

I'd wager it has something to do with grifting the parents for rental fee's etc...

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Grumpy old man rant. My Daughter's HS graduation ceremony is at a freakin stadium. (Original Post) Boxerfan Apr 2019 OP

Maybe you could get a ride? It may be they have to have a big stadium to accomodate CharleyDog Apr 2019 #1

Wow, I never heard anything like that! onlyadream Apr 2019 #2

If you have nore than 1 kid, get used to it. mercuryblues Apr 2019 #3

You won't be able to hear anything. roody Apr 2019 #4

Uber or Lyft. The school will have disability help at the dropoff Arazi Apr 2019 #5

I feel your pain. As a faculty member of a college, I attend every graduation. Coventina Apr 2019 #6

I did not attend my HS graduation ProudLib72 Apr 2019 #7

Parents are usually the last thing the schools worry about DFW Apr 2019 #8

I would go to that one Boxerfan Apr 2019 #9

It was on the volcano, about halfway up. DFW Apr 2019 #11

This message was self-deleted by its author benld74 Apr 2019 #10

CharleyDog

(758 posts)

1. Maybe you could get a ride? It may be they have to have a big stadium to accomodate

Reply to Boxerfan (Original post)

Thu Apr 25, 2019, 07:56 PM

Apr 2019

each child's parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles etc.

Perhaps your daughter knows someone to ride with??

onlyadream

(2,168 posts)

2. Wow, I never heard anything like that!

Reply to Boxerfan (Original post)

Thu Apr 25, 2019, 07:56 PM

Apr 2019

What the heck?

mercuryblues

(14,539 posts)

3. If you have nore than 1 kid, get used to it.

Reply to Boxerfan (Original post)

Thu Apr 25, 2019, 07:57 PM

Apr 2019

My kids school has been doing that forever. If they hold it outside and it rains, you're screwed. It will be moved to the gymnasium with very limited seating.

roody

(10,849 posts)

4. You won't be able to hear anything.

Reply to Boxerfan (Original post)

Thu Apr 25, 2019, 08:23 PM

Apr 2019

Everyone around you will be talking as if it were a sports game. I went to something like that a few years ago and said never again.

Arazi

(6,829 posts)

5. Uber or Lyft. The school will have disability help at the dropoff

Reply to Boxerfan (Original post)

Thu Apr 25, 2019, 08:49 PM

Apr 2019

Good luck and Congratulations to your daughter

Coventina

(27,172 posts)

6. I feel your pain. As a faculty member of a college, I attend every graduation.

Reply to Boxerfan (Original post)

Thu Apr 25, 2019, 09:08 PM

Apr 2019

Yes, it's always emotional, and I wouldn't dream of skipping it. I love seeing my students get their degrees.

But, oh, is it ever a massive PAIN to navigate!!!

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)

7. I did not attend my HS graduation

Reply to Boxerfan (Original post)

Thu Apr 25, 2019, 09:30 PM

Apr 2019

I did not attend my college graduation.
I did not attend my first master's graduation.
I did not attend my second master's graduation.

I do not feel like I missed anything at all.

DFW

(54,443 posts)

8. Parents are usually the last thing the schools worry about

Reply to Boxerfan (Original post)

Sat Apr 27, 2019, 05:59 AM

Apr 2019

For one of our girls, it involved driving ten minutes down the road. For the other, it involved traveling literally halfway around the world--12 time zones!--and then driving halfway up the side of a volcano.

We were just told the time and place. Be there. Aloha (in one case, literally).

Boxerfan

(2,533 posts)

9. I would go to that one

Reply to DFW (Reply #8)

Sat Apr 27, 2019, 02:16 PM

Apr 2019

Just to push the one who arranged it in the Volcano.

I am very proud & will try to attend.

DFW

(54,443 posts)

11. It was on the volcano, about halfway up.

Reply to Boxerfan (Reply #9)

Sat Apr 27, 2019, 06:04 PM

Apr 2019

It was supposed to be extinct, though another one has been erupting down at the other end of the island for years now. Half the ceremony was held in Hawaiian, which was quaint but left most of us Haole folks scratching our heads.

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