Lincolnite

I saw that in today’s paper.  Youch!  Somebody caught hell for that one.  Whatever phone calls they had to take was punishment enough.

Honestly, who cares. They graduated, right? Everyone that NEEDs to know knows, so I guess I don’t understand what the big deal is.

Cedric you are obliviously not a mother.  My mom would have been all kinds of mad!!  :o)

Ahhh, Cedric! It’s about seeing your name (or kid’s name) in print, it’s about clipping it out of the paper and putting it in a scrapbook, it’s about getting extra copies and sending it to relatives! Many DO care.

No, but I am a father. My graduation from HS was bungled, my graduation from BCT and AIT wasn’t even published by my local paper. My life moved on and so did everyone else. Everyone that needs to know already knows and was at the party. Why does it need to be advertised? Its HS.

I don’t belittle it, but your child should get all the validation they need from you, the parents and relatives. Why total strangers that will flip through the paper and pass it up most of the time ( or, use it to find kids that are hidden for good reason) need to know puzzles me.

I’m with Cedric on this one.  Who cares?  Besides—they graduated high school.  It’s not like these kids went into space or anything. I was thinking about this the other day—in Lincoln, NE, it’s probably more difficult to not graduate high than it is to graduate.  It’s a bigger deal to resist the social and parental pressures than it is to do the work.  And the work isn’t that hard to begin with.  If anyone cares about this, they need to rearrange their priorities.

If anyone cares about kids receiving recognition for graduating from high school they should rearrange their priorities?? Perhaps it’s “more difficult to not graduate” because so many people DO care.

Plus, the work in high school can be hard, especially if you’re taking AP and other challenging courses rather than doing the minimum. Some of these kids work very hard and deserve to be proud of their accomplishments and have some recognition, even if they haven’t gone into space or anything.

AP courses? So, they take 101 level courses that are easier than stuff that their parents and grandparents took, and thats an accomplishment? We had an exchange student from Germany in 1995 at my HS and she spoke 5 languages and did calculus. Her school didn’t even count her AP classes or anything she took towards her graduation and she had to spend an extra year in school just to go to University in Hamburg. With grade inflation, 5.0 scales, and weighted averages I really don’t see HS as that much of a challenge and college isn’t much better. Im in my second 4 years and its worse than my first 4. The recognition they get should be from their family and peers, not complete strangers.

I don’t see why newspaper recognition is such a big deal.  As Cedric says, recognition from family and friends should be sufficient.  I perceived graduation from high school as the beginning/end of a life phase, not some grand achievement. I didn’t care if people I didn’t know were aware of my graduation.

I don’t buy it that the work is hard in high school.  I went to a private high school and the most difficult thing to do was my community service hours. But the difficulty in work is not the issue here, it’s whether high school graduation notification is something to care about, and it’s clearly not.

What is the harm in providing recognition to students who graduate from high school?  Shouldn’t we celebrate the success of our children and encourage them?

I don’t read the graduation lists that are published but I’ll bet most of the parents read the list and clip it out.

And if you think high school is a breeze, you haven’t been to high school in a while.  It takes a lot of hard work and a huge commitment from any student who is serious about having a successful high school experience.  My daughter works hard on her classes, participates in varsity choir, show choir and theater.  She works part-time and is involved in church.

How she manages everything is beyond me (and sometimes she has trouble) but it is far from a cake walk for her or other students like her.

I look forward to seeing her name in the graduation list.  It’s a milestone and it deserves to be recognized.  I won’t throw a fit if they decide not to publish the lists, but her graduation will be a big deal at our house.

Who said there was harm in publishing the lists?

I’m not sure how you define ‘a successful high school experience’, but all you need to do to get your name on these lists is to graduate.  You don’t need to be in choir, theater, etc.  I’m not surprised it’s not a cakewalk for her; some students choose to bury themselves in different activities.  I didn’t do that, and high school was a breeze (9 years ago).  You certainly don’t need to do much to achieve the minimum.