Graduation, well almost

[cege]

Read this before voting.

So my nephew is supposed to graduate in a couple weeks. Unfortunately the last couple years has been a struggle for my folks (they are raising him) because "Mr. I'm too cool for my own good" has lazed out. He works his job, but is totally disinterested in anything school or home. He barely passed 11th grade and now it has caught up with him. He has 2 classes that are pivotal to graduation. One he can still pass, the other is a lost cause. The result, he will "walk" with his class but will not get a diploma until he passes that class in summer school.

My mother, or as I now call her, "the extra terrestrial alien being" that replaced the strict, button down, ball busting, unrelenting, proponent of personal responsibility, "you got what you deserved too bad for you" woman that I grew up with, is full of excuses for him. I must say I get some joy playing role reversal on her.

In my mind there is no such thing as a "pseudo-graduation" and if I was running things he would be sitting in the front row watching his peers graduate wearing a dunce cap and holding a sign. To be fair, if he went to summer school and passed he would be more than welcome coming back in 2007 and graduating with that class.

So now I get the invitation to his "Pseudo-graduation" and the shindig open house after at the folks house . Unfortunately it is on a Friday and Boy and I will not be able to attend. However there is the matter of the "pseudo-graduation" gift.

I will get the boy something my question is when. Suppose he goes to summer school and has a tantrum and quits and very graduates? I had almost decided to just send something now. Then this morning I called to talk to the "Alien" and nephew answered. I quizzically asked him what he was doing home? he replied, "I will fail first period anyway so I stopped going so I can catch up on my sleep. I go about 930 for 2nd period."

Logically I suppose this makes sense, but the "matter of fact" delivery method pizzed me off.
SO now you can vote.

I graduated from Summer school (I only needed a 1/2 of credit) and I marched there not with my regular class. Why doesn't he wait and March there. I wouldn't get him a gift until he really graduates. Maybe they aren't telling the other people they invite that he really isn't graduating.

 

[Mikeinsmd]

Great idea!! But maybe a voided check rather than unsigned, that way he's not tempted to break the law.

Liberal

 

[itsbob]

Read this before voting.

So my nephew is supposed to graduate in a couple weeks. Unfortunately the last couple years has been a struggle for my folks (they are raising him) because "Mr. I'm too cool for my own good" has lazed out. He works his job, but is totally disinterested in anything school or home. He barely passed 11th grade and now it has caught up with him. He has 2 classes that are pivotal to graduation. One he can still pass, the other is a lost cause. The result, he will "walk" with his class but will not get a diploma until he passes that class in summer school.

My mother, or as I now call her, "the extra terrestrial alien being" that replaced the strict, button down, ball busting, unrelenting, proponent of personal responsibility, "you got what you deserved too bad for you" woman that I grew up with, is full of excuses for him. I must say I get some joy playing role reversal on her.

In my mind there is no such thing as a "pseudo-graduation" and if I was running things he would be sitting in the front row watching his peers graduate wearing a dunce cap and holding a sign. To be fair, if he went to summer school and passed he would be more than welcome coming back in 2007 and graduating with that class.

So now I get the invitation to his "Pseudo-graduation" and the shindig open house after at the folks house . Unfortunately it is on a Friday and Boy and I will not be able to attend. However there is the matter of the "pseudo-graduation" gift.

I will get the boy something my question is when. Suppose he goes to summer school and has a tantrum and quits and very graduates? I had almost decided to just send something now. Then this morning I called to talk to the "Alien" and nephew answered. I quizzically asked him what he was doing home? he replied, "I will fail first period anyway so I stopped going so I can catch up on my sleep. I go about 930 for 2nd period."

Logically I suppose this makes sense, but the "matter of fact" delivery method pizzed me off.

SO now you can vote.

Gift shoul dbe as real as the graduation.. send him a Target Gift Crad with no money on it..

but I graduate on the 24th, so if it makes you feel better, send money here...

 

[itsbob]

What's up with being allowed to participate in graduation without actually graduating? When I graduated, none of the summer school kids were allowed to participate in any graduation activities, much less walk with everyone else, pretending to graduate. If you weren't getting a diploma, you didn't participate. :shrug:

Because we can't hurt their fragile sef esteem..

 

[onebdzee]

Because we can't hurt their fragile sef esteem..

fragile self esteem

My oldest was one 12th grade English paper from graduation....it was finished he just didn't hand it in....Great Mills called me the day that graduation practice was supposed to start and told me that he couldn't walk because he didn't pass the last quarter of English

If you finish up high school in summer school in St. Mary's you don't get the "graduation walk" you get your diploma in the mail....and that's the way it should be