Graduation. ( Archived) (11)

Tomorrow, my Senior Class 2009 graduate. With the utmost pride I hand over diplomas to these fine young people.

I remember my graduation very clearly as an 18 year old, with my gown and my hat that I still have.

What memories have you of your own schooldays, be it gradutation, school dinners, teachers, and smoking behind the bike sheds?

i just went to my daughter's college graduation. I loved and will always remember my graduations. accomplishments to be proud of.

Hey Kelly.

How wonderful, it is immensely breathtaking for me to see the parents' faces when the children receive their diplomas.

My Grannie at mine, gave me an envelope with questions in and I had to answer them to her. When I was 30. I did and I have done the same for my adopted son, who is part of the group graduating tomorrow.

It is especially poignant for me, because I hand him his diploma as his parent, yet his birth mother is there with us.

Such a special moment and I took my final class today, as I retire from teaching and return in a new role at our school.

Just so special isn't it?

My younger son graduates from 8th grade next week. A chapter of his life is over, and next year he starts high school.

As to my own school days? I don't have very many pleasant memories of them, really. A few, but most of those revolve around the time spent with friends on the weekends. And I don't remember too much of those weekends, either...which is what I enjoyed about them.

Hi Dru.

I love our 8th graders, they are so much fun, although they left us last week to go home.

Oh, why not many pleasant memories of school. I loved school.

I remember my own graduation with a feeling of excitement. Turning a page and moving into the world on my own.
But, I so remember my sons high school and college graduations. My oldest because he was first and how proud his Dad and I were for both. When he graduated from college my (late) husband and I took a long walk after the ceremony and discussed our hopes for the next steps in is life.
When my younger son graduated college I was without his Dad to see it. There were a few family with me yet it wasn't the same. I didn't think of the next steps for him, only wondered what would we go through next.

I am so happy both my sons are out and successful in the lives they have chosen for themselves. Graduations came bring such good feelings.

Hi V.

I loved my graduation, although it raised feelings of being 'released' as I was a boarding school lifer.

Boarding schools do institionlise students. Working in one, I can see myself in the shoes of the ones graduating tomorrow. Certainly four of them have been at our school for many years.

It is a time of excitement worry and anticipation.

Me too, my last one will recieve his diploma tomorrow and then he goes onto a university here in Austria. What with my daughter in London, one in the US and one here, it will mean me being on planes all year sorting their ironing and stuff.

Graduations do bring good feelings, it is very much there in my thoughts and reminds me of my own.

I avoid talking about school I hated it.

I never "fit in" at school. I was a loner, for the most part. Different, so only got along with others who were "different" too, mostly. And other reasons.

And yet, I had the respect of the party/cool crowd who (I discovered years later as one was highly annoyed with what I'd just done) literally kept me on the outside to keep my nose clean. I was told many years later that the reason they didn't invite me to the parties was because I was a good girl, and they all worked together to keep me that way.

Ironies...life is full of them. It didn't keep me that way later. But perhaps it kept me alive for there to be a later.