Thu Apr 25, 2019, 06:50 PM

Boxerfan (1,812 posts)

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

Response to Boxerfan (Original post)

Thu Apr 25, 2019, 06:56 PM

CharleyDog (391 posts)

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

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

Perhaps your daughter knows someone to ride with??

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Thu Apr 25, 2019, 06:56 PM

onlyadream (1,891 posts)

2. Wow, I never heard anything like that!

What the heck?

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Thu Apr 25, 2019, 06:57 PM

mercuryblues (7,885 posts)

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

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.

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Thu Apr 25, 2019, 07:23 PM

roody (10,623 posts)

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

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.

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Thu Apr 25, 2019, 07:49 PM

Arazi (3,698 posts)

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

Good luck and Congratulations to your daughter

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Thu Apr 25, 2019, 08:08 PM

Coventina (19,852 posts)

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

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!!!

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Thu Apr 25, 2019, 08:30 PM

ProudLib72 (17,984 posts)

7. I did not attend my HS graduation

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.

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Sat Apr 27, 2019, 04:59 AM

DFW (35,418 posts)

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

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).

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Sat Apr 27, 2019, 01:16 PM

Boxerfan (1,812 posts)

9. I would go to that one

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

I am very proud & will try to attend.

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Sat Apr 27, 2019, 05:04 PM

DFW (35,418 posts)

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

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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