We had caps and gowns for our 8th grade graduation. It is a little over the top. I didn't have a kindergarten graduation, but I did have one in nursery school, which mostly consisted of a little talent show.
Strong like an Amazon.
Tara ,'Storyteller'
Spike's Bitches 31: We're Motivated Go-getters.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
sj - Jun 23, 2006 6:13:31 am PDT #1351 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Amy - Jun 23, 2006 6:17:22 am PDT #1352 of 10001
Because books.
Thing is though, in urban publics anyway, for more of those kids than I like to contemplate, that is the one and only graduation. Not a thing of the past by any means.
Even here, I'm not sure how many of these kids are going to make it through high school. Which is just unbelievably sad to me.
Sparky1 - Jun 23, 2006 6:35:24 am PDT #1353 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Happy Birthday, Teppy! Forget the phone calls, we should have sent you a stripper.
Yesterday I left my 90+ degree workplace at 4 and walked downtown with my DH to see Thank You for Smoking. It was very amusing. By the time we got out, Berkeley had cooled considerably, and the vegan sushi place had a table next to an open window so we ate there. Then the DH went home an made himself a "real" dinner. Veggies and tofu only ever amount to a snack for him.
juliana - Jun 23, 2006 6:41:43 am PDT #1354 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TEPPY!!!
Le woot. I think you should come to Vegas in September to celebrate.
Volans - Jun 23, 2006 6:44:45 am PDT #1355 of 10001
move out and draw fire
We only did a graduation at the end of 12th grade, and it was pretty consistently the case that half the kids who started high school didn't finish high school, so they never had a graduation. Which I'm okay with, hard-ass at that may be.
I mean, about 5 per year didn't finish high school because they died, but that's another thing entirely.
In honor of Tep's birthday, I had a lovely Me Day. I think Tep Day should be an international holiday.
Also? Officially sick of the World Cup. I know, I know, humbug. But seriously people - sausage packaged to look like soccer balls? FIFA soccer ball shaped cereal?
SuziQ - Jun 23, 2006 6:59:51 am PDT #1356 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
juliana - my undying thanks - yet again. Yummy sounds are coming from my iPod.
Lee - Jun 23, 2006 7:02:31 am PDT #1357 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Le woot. I think you should come to Vegas in September to celebrate.
Yes, this.
Vortex - Jun 23, 2006 7:02:40 am PDT #1358 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Veggies and tofu only ever amount to a snack for him.
sits next to sparky's DH
juliana - Jun 23, 2006 7:05:33 am PDT #1359 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Yummy sounds are coming from my iPod.
Mmmmm. Kane or Corb?
Toddson - Jun 23, 2006 7:05:37 am PDT #1360 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Happy birthday Teppy! May it be full of good things.
And, piggy-backing on the good wishes - graduation for me was high school and college, nothing for kindegarten or elementary school. A lot of the people I went to HS with didn't go on to college, so it was their only one.
And Sparky - and other librarians - I used to see someone in my neighborhood with a "Conan the Librarian" t-shirt.