<p>I remember in my day some kids getting empty diploma cases or a note stuck in them saying, “Boo, you need to pay your library fine, or you owe a term paper”. Ha ha. </p>
<p>I know what you mean, Almostlaunched. But that’s the way a lot of colleges and high schools work things. My friend did NOT want to attend her daughters high school graduation because she had to do summer school art class (she blew it off so was short the art credit to graduate) before getting her diploma. There were a number of kids at my son’s college who were not getting the physical diploma due to incompletes that had to be made up in the summer. Those kids should have been pushed to the December ceremony. With all of the computer technology these days, you would think they could figure out who is eligible to graduate and who isn’t by a given date and only have the ones who are truly due to get a diploma, but most schools are not doing it that way. Don’t know why. The program was printed weeks before the graduation date, by the way, for my son’s graduation. The courses were not even complete at that time. They want the kids off campus and they don’t want to make them have to come back for the ceremony is what I think part of the issue is, so they schedule graduation the weekend after classes are over so there is no time to sort who is supposed to be walking and who is not. </p>
<p>Yeah, I was a parent sitting through the whole event not knowing if my son was bogus or not. I don’t know if he even really knew.</p>