I don't want to go to DD graduation

[Easygoing24]

Dd is going from yeat 9 into year 10. And there's going to be a graduation. I have to sit there for 2 hrs just to watch her be given a bit of paper for 3 seconds . I will have to put my younger kids in breakfast club . Will have to leave home at 6.45. As I dont drive. Breakfast club 7.45 and then get to dd school for 8.30.

Feels like so much pissing about . No I don't have anyone who can help. No school mums, no one at all .

Yes I know I'm being a nasty bitch. I will 100% go. Because I won't let dd down .

Absolute nonsense- I'd be writing to the school if I experienced this. How ridiculous, just get on with educating them! I wouldn't go out of principle.

Ah, the anti-Americanisms are back again I see 🙄

Fwiw, Americans only have graduations when children are leaving one school to go up to the next. So sometimes a primary to middle, or middle to high school graduation, and high school to college (which is the big one) This situation isn't any of those at all.

Absolutely ridiculous!

We have our ds's graduation from University this July and I guess we'll have to go to that (even though it's in the middle of the holidays and hotels are expensive etc)!

Americans only have graduations when children are leaving one school to go up to the next. So sometimes a primary to middle, or middle to high school graduation, and high school to college

Absolutely ridiculous!!!!

Let's keep just one graduation - from University! 🧑‍🎓

I thought you meant her University graduation!!

It's probably to try to encourage the Year 9s from being slightly less feral for the last half term by focusing on them positively for a change.

It would be an bloody nightmare to prepare for right in the middle of exams and assessments, sports day, transition days and everything else, but the result could be good for the kids.

I thought the DGD’s nursery school graduation was a bit daft but this is new level bonkers. YANBU.

Schools should use their limited resources on teaching our children! Not organising 'graduations' 🧑‍🎓for them.

Let's also not devalue a proper graduation from University!

There was a thread just a few days ago about a 4yo's nursery graduation.

Go, wear wireless headphones discreetly covered by your hair, and then you can sit and listen to a podcast or audiobook during the boring bits that don't involve your daughter.

Graduation should be when you get a Degree and not before. What a load of nonsense.

There was a thread just a few days ago about a 4yo's nursery graduation.

I bet that was a wind up.... nursery graduation 🧑‍🎓?!!!

Do calm down with the anti-Americanism and the elitism.

The etymology of "graduation" means taking a step, one of the reasons that Americans also call graduations "commencement." Lots of people never get a degree, but they do have milestones in their education as they step from one phase to the next. Why not celebrate these?

To be honest whilst it does seem like a bit unnecessary as it’s not an actual graduation, you also sound a bit down. It sounds like something fun and different. I wouldn’t care about waking up early on this one day. You’ll be done by 10:30-11 and the rest of your day will go on as normal. It doesn’t really seem like a massive upheaval.

Ha me too. My son is graduating this year (from Uni) so I was (Oprah style) whaaat! before I read it 😁

What a lot (US) nonsense. Everything has to be such a fuss nowadays.

I will add I am fuss averse. While the mums and kids were all crying at primary leavers assembly my son and I couldn’t get out of there quick enough.

@settingss Its really not fun. What's fun about sitting there for 90 mins . Waiting my dd to get a rolled up bit of paper.

I'm going to have to get my younger kids up at 6am. We will have to leave the house by about 6.30 . Get the 6.45 bus . To get the younger 2 to breakfast club for 7.45. I will then have to walk a bit to catch the bus to Dd school to get there for 8.30. Everything takes so much longer when you don't drive. Its am arse.

It would not be so bad if it was slightly later to allow younger siblings to be taken to school .

I have to leave home at 1.50 to get to the kids from school.

It's just alot of faffing

Having said all that I'm going anyway

I love 'fuss averse' @willWillSmithsmith Me too!
Hope you get there ok and survive it @Easygoing24

It's utterly ridiculous, IMHO, to have a graduation ceremony for anything other than when a person gets a University degree.

Ours both had graduations, it was a bit of fun. A leavers party where each child got presented with a teddy bear and had a photo.

It was sweet way to mark the end of nursery.

Noone thought it meant their child had a degree!

I think it's bloody daft🙄
But you're a good mum for going. Because if your DD is excited, she won't forget you being there. (Coming from someone whose parents came to nothing).

If your daughter is excited, I would suck it up but I appreciate it is inconvenient for you and these things can be quite boring!

But for my DD I would make the effort

My two both had nursery graduations, in primary. I wasn't allowed to go. My headteacher at the time didn't allow anything like that.

It's probably someone on slt trying to make them take yr10 more seriously. Generally, I find they take it seriously around Easter yr11.....

It’s pathetic. I thought teachers already had too much to do without this sort of shit.

Agreed. This is ridiculous.

Like most, I assumed from the title, you were talking about an actual graduation - you know, when people graduate from University.

I would not be going to what you've described though.
I would say to my dc "You are automatically going from Yr9 to Yr10. You aren't 'graduating' from anything. I do my absolute best to make the arrangements so I can get to important things, but I am not going to be able to attend this."

As was said earlier, if parents don't humour them, then the school won't repeat the event and put other parents in the same position.