I remember when our kids’ teachers would have them make their own graduation caps out of poster board or paper. I guess that would be asking too much of the teacher. I agree with the over abundance of “graduations.” It’s actually insulting if you think about it; celebrating leaving pre-school or kindergarten like it’s the highest achievement these kids will ever reach.
back in the day, we would celebrate the whole month of May devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary, with one special Sunday with a special "crowning" of a statue of Mary in church...
anyway it involved we students dressing up and parading from school into the church ...very dramatic....
the boys dressed in white shirts and dark colored ties, and dark colored pants...
ane we girls...the school had boxes full of long white gowns that we would rifle thru and find our size....EVERY GIRL EVERY YEAR would wear a gown that probably dozens of other girls had worn....
that was the way schools were back then...you shared..you didn't have to have everything new....you appreciated that there were used clothes that you could borrow....
For some of them, it is.
My first thought as well.
It's pitiful that the socially disadvantaged in this country have been force-fed a diet of envy and covetousness instead of opportunity, hard work and personal responsibility. They make a "joyful noise" in their churches, but apparently do not teach and learn the Commandments.
I remember in our high school in the 60s, seniors joked about the "Protestant work ethic" and "delayed gratification", but that was to steel ourselves to rise to those standards in the weeks after graduation. Those pitiable kids in the video, screaming in fear, will be lucky to graduate high school at all, much less to avoid prison time.
As I often say in these situations, thank goodness our educated white liberals got rid of that prayer in schools thing back in the 60s. It might have harmed the children. /sarc
Scholastically, it may well be true.