Leonardtown High Graduation Will Be Smaller This Year!

[Czar]

Leonardtown High Cuts Graduation Tickets After Sudden Survey, Parents Outraged - The BayNet

LEONARDTOWN, Md. — Leonardtown High School’s Class of 2025 graduation ceremony has been upended by a last-minute change that reduced guest tickets from four to two, based on a student-only survey conducted over just three hours on Memorial Day. The decision, made without parent input and...

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Seems idiotic. Who's the bonehead that approved this plan? Sorry granny.

Why not hold the event outdoors on the football field? This way everyone who wants to can attend the ceremony.

 

[NorthBeachPerso]

Leonardtown High Cuts Graduation Tickets After Sudden Survey, Parents Outraged - The BayNet

LEONARDTOWN, Md. — Leonardtown High School’s Class of 2025 graduation ceremony has been upended by a last-minute change that reduced guest tickets from four to two, based on a student-only survey conducted over just three hours on Memorial Day. The decision, made without parent input and...

thebaynet.com

Seems idiotic. Who's the bonehead that approved this plan? Sorry granny.

Why not hold the event outdoors on the football field? This way everyone who wants to can attend the ceremony.

Rain. Outdoor venues always have to have a backup plan. Apparently, no one thought of that and one was cobbled together at the last minute instead of being ready when the original schedule was made.

And it did rain the 28th.

Having said that, no one needs to have your next door neighbor's third cousin attend your graduation. Honest to Christ, we had kids need forty tickets some years.

As a note: I had to pay my mother $20 to attend mine, mostly because she was my ride and I was suspended from car use that day for some reason.

 

[vraiblonde]

When I graduated high school you didn't invite everyone you knew to the ceremony. Typically it was your mom and dad and maybe siblings (but not usually because graduation is boring), and everyone else stayed at the house to get the grad party ready.

I mean, I guess for some kids graduating high school is like a miracle and all their relatives wanted to come and make sure they weren't lying, but at my school it was rare for someone to not graduate.

 

[NorthBeachPerso]

When I graduated high school you didn't invite everyone you knew to the ceremony. Typically it was your mom and dad and maybe siblings (but not usually because graduation is boring), and everyone else stayed at the house to get the grad party ready.

I mean, I guess for some kids graduating high school is like a miracle and all their relatives wanted to come and make sure they weren't lying, but at my school it was rare for someone to not graduate.

I agree but with a caveat. There are still kids, today in 2025-mostly boys, who are the first kid in their family, again mostly males since girls tended to stick it out, to graduate from high school. That doesn't excuse inviting a couple dozen people but I see why it's thought that it needs to be done.

 

[Czar]

I agree but with a caveat. There are still kids, today in 2025-mostly boys, who are the first kid in their family, again mostly males since girls tended to stick it out, to graduate from high school. That doesn't excuse inviting a couple dozen people but I see why it's thought that it needs to be done.

In Leonardtown?

 

[BOP]

Now it's a team sport amongst the Community.

 

[NorthBeachPerso]

In Leonardtown?

Is it located in a rural area of Southern Maryland with a substantial lower class population with generational poverty, low achievement and dependence on government programs? No, that's not "just in Lexington Park".

 

[Czar]

Is it located in a rural area of Southern Maryland with a substantial lower class population with generational poverty, low achievement and dependence on government programs? No, that's not "just in Lexington Park".

I thought those students went to Great Mills High School? Leonardtown has a 95 percent graduation rate, GM 83 percent.

 

[NorthBeachPerso]

I thought those students went to Great Mills High School? Leonardtown has a 95 percent graduation rate, GM 83 percent.

So? We're not talking graduation rate (which can be massaged six ways to Sunday to get the number you want).

 

[Clem72]

[...] at my school it was rare for someone to not graduate.

That used to be rare at most schools, because the "non-graduate material" kids got shuffled from remedial classes to remedial schools when they didn't improve. Same with the disciplinary cases.

 

[NorthBeachPerso]

...............but at my school it was rare for someone to not graduate.

That used to be rare at most schools, because the "non-graduate material" kids got shuffled from remedial classes to remedial schools when they didn't improve. Same with the disciplinary cases.

It was rare when we went to school, although you're a fair amount younger than me, because the kids who weren't going to graduate dropped out. Some at the end of Junior High, some during High School but when Commencement Day came they weren't around.

And, if someone looks, they will find that graduation rates started low in the 1960s, around 50%, and have slowly, but surely, increased since, up to the high 80s.
As I said that last number can be massaged. One way to increase it is to include those students who take six years to complete high school (colleges use that same time length when publishing their graduation rates). Another way is to move the kids to alternative settings. As long as that's tracked with a destination the kid drops off the original school's stats.

 

[Czar]

So? We're not talking graduation rate (which can be massaged six ways to Sunday to get the number you want).

So what the real numbers of students dropping out of Leonardtown High School?

 

[NorthBeachPerso]

So what the real numbers of students dropping out of Leonardtown High School?

I think you've kind of lost track. I mentioned students TODAY who are the first in their family to graduate from high school. That means their parent(s) would have quit twenty plus years ago.

As far as what the graduation rate is, you have to take it at face value while realizing that there are legitimate and accepted ways to juke the stats.

 

[my-thyme]

When my youngest was 16, we withdrew him from school after he aced the GED pretest, with the understanding that he would get a job and complete that GED (had to wait until 3 months after withdrawal).

The HS called in August to go over our homeschool plan. I explained we weren't homeschooling, he had already received his GED, HS was done.

So instead of withdrawing him, the school set him up for homeschooling. Guess it was all about the numbers.

(For those wondering, it was either withdraw him or bail him outta jail once he clocked the young men who would not listen to young ladies tell them "no, I'm not interested in 'dating' you".)

 

[Clem72]

It was rare when we went to school, although you're a fair amount younger than me, because the kids who weren't going to graduate dropped out. Some at the end of Junior High, some during High School but when Commencement Day came they weren't around.

And, if someone looks, they will find that graduation rates started low in the 1960s, around 50%, and have slowly, but surely, increased since, up to the high 80s.
As I said that last number can be massaged. One way to increase it is to include those students who take six years to complete high school (colleges use that same time length when publishing their graduation rates). Another way is to move the kids to alternative settings. As long as that's tracked with a destination the kid drops off the original school's stats.

I doubt I am a "fair amount" younger than you. People who are a fair amount older than me are in nursing homes if they are still around at all.

 

[NorthBeachPerso]

I doubt I am a "fair amount" younger than you. People who are a fair amount older than me are in nursing homes if they are still around at all.

I was addressing that to Vrai in the quote I used above yours. The second half was about moving kids around, which you'd mentioned.

 

[LightRoasted]

For your consideration ...

I think you've kind of lost track. I mentioned students TODAY who are the first in their family to graduate from high school. That means their parent(s) would have quit twenty plus years ago.

As far as what the graduation rate is, you have to take it at face value while realizing that there are legitimate and accepted ways to juke the stats.

I wonder the percentage would be if the rates only applied to merit? Because the majority of kids graduating today are dumber than a box of rocks.

 

[NorthBeachPerso]

For your consideration ...





I wonder the percentage would be if the rates only applied to merit? Because the majority of kids graduating today are dumber than a box of rocks.

In truth, they always were. If you were in Academic or Honors classes you didn't see them except maybe in PE, Art and Music if even then. They didn't take ALG1, they took "Math for Living". They didn't take American or British Lit, they took "Everyday English Parts 1 and 2". The Bell curve for IQ hasn't changed, half are below the mean, half are above it