Signing ceremony, solemn and touching

twoinanddone
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 02:19:00 +0000

A friend posted her daughter’s senior commitment night on FB. I think it was an alternative high school as there weren’t that many students and they were mostly attending the regional colleges, but it was still nice with about 30 kids giving speeches to thank their parents and teachers and many received a Bag-o-Swag from their colleges. Some of the colleges sent admissions reps to present the swag.

It is up to the school. If they want to recognize athletes, they do, and my DDs school’s athletic director organized the signing ceremony and the parents of the signers bought all the food and balloons. If schools want to recognize academics, they do. We had a senior awards night and it wasn’t nearly as fun as the athletic signing and only the seniors and parents getting the awards were invited. The teachers didn’t even show up. It was very boring and there were no cupcakes. My older daughter’s theater group had an awards night where they gave awards. One year they announced where they were all heading to college and of course the year my daughter was a senior they didn’t. That was up to her theater teacher.

I think many school clubs and sports have end of the year banquets where scholarships and awards are given out. I know our school had them for sports, for band, for theater, for debate, etc. Any group could arrange a ‘signing ceremony’ type event if they wanted to.