Snow Makeup Day has Changed!

Would graduation be moved to Saturday?

 

only if you want to pay for the announcements to be reprinted with a new date.
Seniors won't come back if you move the date. they will already be gone.

 

Easiest solution for all for future years. Do away with Spring Break entirely and get out a week earlier!

You have no idea how excited I am to be saying good bye to the public school system. By the time my niece becomes a senior (6 years), the senior project will require a thesis.

 

Amen to that! After getting one through his Senior project this year I am scared STUPID about going through it with 2 more.

 

From my understanding, the make up day will not really affect any of the other high school students. I have a senior and freshman and their final exams always actually end a couple of days before the last day of the semester. Unless they need remediation and/or make up exams, they don't have to attend school at all. So, since the exam schedule will most likely not be changed I doubt there will be any students there except the seniors.

 

I was going to bring up this point. The rememdiation/retest days never follow the same daily schedule as usual. Bottom line...you sure can't please everyone...deal with it.

 

The reason it gets harder is that every year they change what is NOT acceptable. They see what they percieve as too easy and tell them they can not do it this time around. Case in point... my daughter who graduated last year did a web site that she designed (using MS FrontPage). But she had to do lots of research to decide what to put on there, etc. Seems many others did websites also.

In this years senior meeting, the first thing they said was "no more websites".

The phrase they like to use is "a learning stretch". Problem is the teachers definition and a students defintion of learning stretch are usually different. My son did his junior paper on "What would happen if a Bird Flu Pandemic hit the US?" So for his senior project he grew a vegetable garden to show that if vegetables were quarantined (and you had the land), you can grow and freeze your own vegtables. Because he works at a local farm supply and farm, the teachers thought is would be too easy for him. I went a few rounds before I convinced them that it was not something he did in his work (other than using the tractors). Long story short, he got a 102 on his project and the praises of his teacher.

But they are just trying to make it too hard. If they'd just let the kids do a project and be graded and judged on it, and not make up their minds ahead of time on them on it's ease or difficulty, things would run alot smoother for the senior project program.

 

My my my...everyone is so fiesty here.

At first I was told that graduation is being held on Jume 8th...rain date is June 9th.

I had to call CHS for other reasons and I was told that Graduation was being held on June 8th at 6:30 (which I thought was kinda late by the time it finishes) and if it rains, they will bring it inside.

Each kids gets 15 tickets for families. I thought it was alot. When I was in HS, we were allowed 5 per family.

Information Packet will be sent out at the end of April or first week of May.

AND I have a personal question ..... I have small children and this is my SIL who will be graduating. My husband will attend but my kids and I will not be attending since it is at 6:30 and outside...they will not be able to sit stil for that long period of time. Do you think MIL will understand?

 

*sigh* I know, and I honestly was trying to have a discussion and not get nasty. But the hostility got the best of me, and I gave-in to the pressure :-(

...I'm going to now climb up from the level I stooped too...

As for your MIL, I hope she'll understand. Guess all you can do is ask her how she'd feel about it if you missed and go from there.

 

I have one graduating this year and I (personally) would understand. Just make sure someone has a video camera. It may all depend on what kind of MIL you have.

 

Oh no...don't put me in the middle! My comment was not directed at anyone directly.

 

Oops! REALLY Sorry PirateGirl... I've decided to edit that response.

Wasn't nice and not worth it.

Sorry again.

 

Oops. Deleting doesn't erase the quote... guess it's too late.

Having major posting regret.

 

My MIL is a weird one. I don't care to see the graduation video or pictures. My SIL don't care for me so why should I go out of my way to go to her graduation. I have a good reason not to go but I am sure my MIL will give my husband a hard time when she finds out that the kids and I are not going.

 

No prob.

 

As long as you give SIL a nice graduation gift, I'm sure they'll get over you not being in attendance.

 

Am i misunderstanding but am i correct to understand that your sister-in-law is graduating from High School:shock:

Anyway, good luck, the MIL/DIL situation can be a bit tricky sometimes, any chance of just talking to your MIL and explaining how you feel especially about the children?

 

Buying her a nice gift probably won't change the fact that the SIL doesn't like you.. I wouldn't waste the money. Leave it up to your DH and just tell your MIL like it is, the kids would be a nuisance for that duration of time.

 

I've got a weird one too. She's content if we leave her alone to live her life and give her Christmas presents (we get a wish list every year...I purposely ignore it and buy her something else entirely). I say the heck with it and do something special with your kids that night. Can I send my MIL to your house instead of graduation......kidding.

 

Amen, amen and AMEN!