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It's just not a Wednesday without a bagpiper leading a procession around City Hall Plaza
By adamg on Wed, 06/15/2016 - 10:00am
Sixth graders at the Advent School on Beacon Hill walked to Faneuil Hall for their graduation this morning.
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Really?
Am I the only one who graduated once before college??
This year alone I've heard of kids "graduating" pre-school, kindergarten, 4th grade, 5th grade, (now) 6th grade, 8th grade, and high school. I'm all for positive reinforcement within reason but marching around city hall with bagpipers because you finished 6th grade seems over the top. My boss doesn't fist bump me at the end of every week and throw parties for us for making it through a month/quarter/year. It's expected of an employee! Little tokens here or there? Sure- nice gesture.
Seriously though, What Does this teach our kids about expectations on relatively small accomplishments?
And they should stay off your lawn, too!
This is their last year at that school. Seems like a biggish deal to me.
Less to do with "accomplishments"
Granted, it's been a number of years since my kids were in school, but my impression of those events (in our case, for nursery school; 5th grade -- i.e. end of elementary school; 8th grade -- end of middle school) was that, instead of Giving Everyone A Trophy, the point was to enable the school community to gather and mark a significant transition for the students and their families. Our kids' elementary school was quite small and close-knit, and going onto middle school invariably meant changes to a lot of the relationships forged over K-5. Yeah, yeah, that's life, but why not pause to appreciate the place and the people (the school and community) that had been a large part of your world those past several years?
As for 8th grade graduation ceremonies, more power to 'em: From what we saw, getting out of middle school was a cause for both kids and parents to celebrate.
That's how it was for me too
for K, 5th, and 8th, and like you said it was more about saying good-bye to friends and thank you to teachers. This was back in the 80s, so it's not that new of a concept.
Not saying
A send off is not in order but marching around city hall, parade style, with a bagpiper seems over the top. As stated.
And yes- those pesky teens should stay off my lawn! Or they'll get muddy shoes in my grass-less excuse of a yard. I'm waiving my hands and yelling as I type this (you should see me walk & chew gum) for practice.