<p>For those eighth graders who’ve been on here for a while–what does your school do for graduation? I’m just curious (and hoping to delay studying for my geometry finals). It’s a fairly big deal at my school. We’re having our graduation ceremony at the high school. We have Valedictorians, but they don’t weight, so they have 19 of them. :rolleyes: I’m not one. I missed it by one-tenth of a percentage point. We also have kids welcome the parents in different languages (this year we have 24 languages).</p>
<p>Gosh, the total number of languages spoken in your grade is TWENTY FOUR? That’s better than some (most) boarding schools, if they’re fluent!!</p>
<p>Our school is K-9, so the 9th graders get all the accolades and the pretty white dresses, but each eighth grader lines up and receives a “diploma” and we get to wear a dress of our choice and the boys wear suits.</p>
<p>Mainly for the 9th graders though, but so many 8th graders leave that they have to hold us a little ceremony thing. Then a luncheon afterwards for BOTH the 9th and 8th graders, though (of course) it’s meant for the 9th graders. See my point here?</p>
<p>Aw, J… you must have some really smart people in your class because I can’t see you not being valedictorian!! You’re so smart, just by your posts/grades/SSAT scores (Miss 99th SSAT percentile, to borrow a phrase from dancer).</p>
<p>Yep, twenty-four. I live in Berkeley. We’re pretty diverse. I wanted to do Latin (I don’t speak it, but my dad does, and he could have told me), but they really want the kids to be fluent in the language. Off the top of my head, the kids I know who are doing it are speaking Russian, Armenian, Danish, Spanish (though I’d say at least 45% of the kids at my school are fluent in Spanish), French, Dutch, Farsai, Chinese, Japanese, and, I think, Italian. My friend, who’s doing Russian, but isn’t completely fluent (it’s her first language, but she stopped speaking it when she went to Kindergarten and didn’t start again for a while) keeps complaining that no one in Russia says “Welcome to Our Middle School”, so she doesn’t know how to say it. 
That kind of sucks. My school is 6-8, and people get pretty into it. It would be really confusing if we were 6-9. I think that some of the primary schools in my district have that issue, because a few are K-6, but a lot of kids leave in the fifth grade.
We do have an exceptionally smart year this year, but that’s not why I didn’t get it. You have to not get any A-minuses, just straight A’s, and I got one. Third quarter, geometry, by one-tenth of a percentile. :rolleyes: Jeez. It doesn’t really matter, but, just because it was so close, it annoys me. Kids kept asking my why I didn’t get it, and so many kids asked me that I started answering “because I thought it said parallel and it said perpendicular” or something like that, because that was the question that I messed up on that would have changed me grade. :D</p>
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<p>Oh snap. Math sucks. :D</p>
<p>i go to a catholic middle school and graduation really isn’t a big deal since most everyone is going to the catholic high school (with about one exception).the graduation itself was about forty-five munutes and our diplomas didn’t even have our name on it.</p>
<p>We don’t really have a graduation for eighth grade because everyone goes to the same high school (except me, :)), so we just have this awards night thing where the have an award for the people with the highest cumulative GPA throughout middle school. I didn’t get it, though. Algebra killed my GPA this year. I usually have a 4.0 every quarter, but now I have around a 3.7. We also have awards for like straight A’s in a subject, most improved in a subject, quiz bowl, spelling bee, geography bee, etc.</p>
<p>Our graduation is normal. The day before graduation though, we have a ceremony with like little special awards. Most athletic, improved, straight a in a subject, attendance, etc. On graduation, we have the valedictorian (Me!) and the salutitorian do their speech. Then there are like songs we sing and turn around to the parents to sing to them. Then it’s big awards. Then they have the names of people who are not going to the high school everyone supposed to go to (Like technical high schools, boarding, private, etc.) A whole bunch of people talking (The mayor, board of education etc.) Then we get the diplomas and we’re out. Not a big thing.</p>
<p>heyy guys, i’ve been lurking of course, but not posting!</p>
<p>we made a HUGE deal out of graduation at my school. my school is a k-12 catholic school, but the high school is all girls & only 6 girls out of 60 are staying. they GOT all the scholarships from the school.</p>
<p>first, in the middle of may, we had a “pin ceremony” where we received class pins & we dressed formally. the whole school attended this. many students spoke poems & prayers & everything that had to do with leaving. then, they put on a 40 minute slideshow of past memories with music. it was really nice.</p>
<p>this wednesday, on the last day of school, we had this pizza & cake party where they went all out && we partied all day signing penants & yearbooks. </p>
<p>the 7th graders created each of us wooden initials which were very nice & they had a collage of all our interests & stuff as a departing gift that we also received at this party.</p>
<p>this thursday night, we had our graduation. first, it was a "graduation/congratulations/goodbye themed catholic mass. then they announced their scholarship winners && all kinds of awards & everything. at this night, we had flowers & caps & gowns. they went all out.</p>
<p>this friday, we had a graduation semi formal dance which was at a nice hotel nearby. this was a dinner & dancing event with friends, teachers, & parents which was very very nice. we had formal attire. it was like a prom with parents basically.</p>
<p>so yeah, our school went all out. =]</p>