How to improve Graduations

citygirlsmom
Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:15:29 +0000

Seems many of use had some not so great graduations, so lets consolodate the ideas to improve them, and then we can send them off to our respect schools, in hopes that maybe the school will change something:

Have speeches last no more than 8 minutes each, love the valiectdictoriom speeches, but after about 4 minutes, I ususally just want you to stop

I would rather have you speak a bit too fast then a bit, er, really slow

If you insist on giving out awards to those that have helped the school, do not take 30 minutes to do it, refer back to the first point- no more than 5 minutes to introduce te “winner” and no more than 3 minutes of thank you, in total, no more than 15 minutes for those awards to non-students, no matter how they helped the school, this is NOT there day, so instead of reading their entire bio, print the darn thing on the website, we don’t care, sad to say, after 15 minutes of the guys life story

Do NOT tell us that you will be just opening the front doors, so we all waited 1 1/2 hours in the drizzle, just so you could then open the side doors to late comers who got the best seats

I like the handing out of ribbons to wave when your child is called, or standing up, those are lovely ideas, cause when you are standing you can snap a picture!!!

No ceremony should go on for more than 1 1/2 hours, cut stuff short, so that we aren’t all chomping at the bit to leave by the time the last kid is called up

And thank you for this year not putting where graduates are going to college, just merit scholarships, by school, they received, and just having a master list of schools people are going to

That is a great change from the past