<p>I’m not particularly sure who gets to wear them, but I think NHS members, correct me if I’m wrong? (CA high school) and they sit in the front rows</p>
<p>Is there a similar tradition in your Son or Daughter’s school? How are they given the honor? Do you think its fair?</p>
<p>Our NHS kids wear a colored sash- gold. Why isn’t this fair? They earned the distinction.</p>
<p>IMO its fair, dunno about others though. And who gets to wear gold/white robes? or different colored ones from the regular…</p>
<p>At our school and many of the others here in New England, the girls wear one color and the boys another, based on their school colors. Usually the girls are in white, yellow or gold and the boys are in blue, red or green. (For instance, our high school’s colors are blue and white, so the girls wear white and the boys wear blue).</p>
<p>NHS and other honors are noted by sashes, cords and/or different colored tassels.</p>
<p>At our school, most kids wear black robes, California Scholarship Federation members (it’s like a NHS) wear white and IB graduates wear red robes. CSF kids also have gold cords; I think student government kids wear blue cords. Not sure about the blue cords (or even if there were blue cords).</p>
<p>Everybody wears the same color robes (school color). Top ten graduates have gold sashes, top 10% grads have white sashes, different colored cords for all sorts of things (community service, magnet program, advanced programs, etc).</p>
<p>cords here man…</p>
<p>Cords here. Every graduate has cords in the school colors, NHS has another silver and senior scholars have another gold. Senior scholars that join NHS have a total of 4 cords.</p>
<p>Our hs colors are black and gold, so all the females get to wear a lovely orangey-gold color robe! For NHS they wear cords. My D also had cords for Quill and Scroll and some other academic achievements.</p>
<p>At my S’s all boys school the boys wear tuxes. Everyone wears the same tux. They look so nice!</p>
<p>oohhh…tuxes! How handsome they must all look!</p>
<p>Reminds me of that old movie…Trouble with Angels where the graduating girls are all in white dresses…lovely.</p>
<p>At my kids’ school there is a proliferation of sashes, tassels, medals, and all sorts of what-not symbolizing who knows what. It’s all fine by me.</p>
<p>At D’s school everyone wears the same color robes, but they earn the sashes/tassels, etc. It seems like a good system.</p>
<p>Older daughters school ( class of 18) wore evening dresses and tuxedos.
( funny story, this was in 2000, one boy missed his fitting so his mom just measured the pants in his closet- this was the crotch down to the knees style- mom didn’t realize! 
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<p>Younger daughters school had women in white robes, young men in purple- plus sashes and cords for honors and other awards.
It seems to be traditional in many schools that women wear the white, even though it isn’t necessarily flattering, but I guess the guys would get it too dirty. ( also not thrilled that we had to buy it)</p>
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<p>I was a member of the national honor society and graduated in the top 10 of my class. Looking back, though, I don’t think students should wear special colors because of an affilated membership. Perhaps a unique cord or pin on their gown, but not special colors.</p>
<p>Graduation should be a time to celebrate all those who graduate and not a time to make certain people stand out. Graduation means a lot to all but especially a lot to those without any affilations because they were the at risk students and they made it. I think it goes without saying that every National Honor Society member graduates, but it is quite an accomplishment for others.</p>
<p>Sashes and cords here. We’re fancy in Texas! They all wear the same color robe.</p>
<p>My son’s school does something I’d never seen before. Those who graduate with an “A” average are given a special sash and walk first. So those kids are called up by last name A-Z and they remain standing after they get back to their seats in the front rows. When they are done, everyone applauds and they sit down. Then they go A-Z again for the rest of the graduates.</p>
<p>I didn’t just dislike it, I loathed it. I still came away from my son’s graduation with good feelings but it certainly cast a pall on the day. Interestingly, most of the students I spoke with were in the first group but felt the same way. </p>
<p>My son graduated near the top of his class and wore several sashes and cords. Yet among those graduates who were not in the first group were teen parents, first generation high school graduates and so on. Where is their sash or cord? Why do they have to wait until the “top students” walk? I wrote a letter to the school but did not hear back, perhaps it’s time for a follow up call.</p>
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<p>Those that walked first will be humbled someday when they find their manager, supervisor, or lead was one of the students who didn’t walk first. </p>
<p>School is very important and I value it a lot. But I also recognize that many ‘B’ students excel in life as well.</p>
<p>Gold robes? They must look like a choir.</p>
<p>At my kid’s school the girls wear knee-length white dresses and the boys wear tan pants and blue blazers. They wear cords for NHS, foreign language honor societies, etc. The girls are also given a silver necklace with the school insignia and the boys are given a similar lapel pin to wear at graduation. IMO, it’s a nice, tasteful tradition and the students look wonderful.</p>
<p>At our large public sch., the girls wear light blue and the boys wear navy blue gowns (sch. colors). NHS members wear a sash/collar thing. There are various cords for other honors societies. Oddly, the top ten in the class got nothing except to stand when their name was called for being in top ten. There was no sash/cord/medallion, not even a certificate.</p>