Your high school graduation
Apr. 3rd, 2008 08:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blue_lotus13Since I started working on a story about high school grad, I started asking all my newsroom friends what they did for their high school graduations. I'm really surprised by the range of activities and acceptance/non acceptance of underage drinking.
The high school grade in GP lasts two days. One is a cap and gown day, the next is the formal day, which is followed by the Safe grad. At safe grad, the grads are taken to an undisclosed location. Before attending this activity, they are allowed to provide coolers of booze, which they give over to the parent chaperones. They also have to have parental consent to attend safe grad, and these signed parental forms are given to the RCMP. Safe grad may be only attended by people between the ages of 16-20, and even the 20-year-olds have to have signed forms. The kids are then allowed to drink, and are monitored by the parents.
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My grad was a one day affair. Cap and gown in the morning, formal march and dinner and then dry grad. We went out to a farm where we played games, had a bonfire, roasted marshmellows, and had hay rides. There was no drinking.
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So what about you? What did you do for your high school grad? Is it a big affair in the United States?
The high school grade in GP lasts two days. One is a cap and gown day, the next is the formal day, which is followed by the Safe grad. At safe grad, the grads are taken to an undisclosed location. Before attending this activity, they are allowed to provide coolers of booze, which they give over to the parent chaperones. They also have to have parental consent to attend safe grad, and these signed parental forms are given to the RCMP. Safe grad may be only attended by people between the ages of 16-20, and even the 20-year-olds have to have signed forms. The kids are then allowed to drink, and are monitored by the parents.
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My grad was a one day affair. Cap and gown in the morning, formal march and dinner and then dry grad. We went out to a farm where we played games, had a bonfire, roasted marshmellows, and had hay rides. There was no drinking.
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So what about you? What did you do for your high school grad? Is it a big affair in the United States?
