<p>If he doesn’t want the ceremony, it’s one thing, but I don’t see what “isn’t right” about the situation. My son’s college, along with many other schools do the same thing. I wouldn’t have bet a dime that my son would get that diploma in the mail, but I figured the odds were good and was willing to bet the thousand or so we paid to attend the graduation, that he was going to get the diploma eventually, and we might as well go through the ceremony and enjoy it while things were “hot on the grill”. If he did not get the diploma (he did–I was wrong) and it took another couple of years, I don’t think any of us would have felt like going to the event. I did hold the pictures and info about the weekend until I verified, about a week later with the registrar’s office that he had indeed graduated. Now some of my other kids, I would have just taken their say so about this, but that son…well, there were issues.</p>