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I guess I have just attended orderly graduations that had 10 sec between kids and people knew how to clap for their kid as they crossed the stage and stop. No one's clapping stole from another student..
Maybe I have just attended smaller class size graduations..There has always been the spacing of a name called and that student walking across the entire stage & shaking hands & getting diploma before the next name is called..( seems like about 10 seconds) Maybe larger class sizes go faster..
Maybe I have just attended smaller class size graduations..There has always been the spacing of a name called and that student walking across the entire stage & shaking hands & getting diploma before the next name is called..( seems like about 10 seconds) Maybe larger class sizes go faster..
Yeah. It's the larger class sizes.
My ceremony at NCSU (the one for my college, not the whole university) allowed for clapping between names. Smaller ceremony.
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I'm a bit surprised most schools don't have the graduation ceremony directly at the school. Even if it couldn't be done inside, there's no reason to be unable to grab a couple hundred chairs and build a small stage.
I'm a bit surprised most schools don't have the graduation ceremony directly at the school. Even if it couldn't be done inside, there's no reason to be unable to grab a couple hundred chairs and build a small stage.
I'm not surprised at all. Many of the high schools are over capacity as it is. My daughter was only allowed 4 tickets for family members to attend graduation. If you have a class of 500 students, plus family, that is a huge amount of people. There isn't even enough parking at the high school during the regular school year. I can't imagine trying to have graduation there.
Agreed. Schools don't have 600 chairs lying around waiting for an event. A high school's stadium is built to hold football games and don't have that kind of capacity (most of them, anyway). They could be built to facilitate that, but the bonds that have been passed haven't been large enough to build schools of the capacity required, much less to add that. The tradeoff there is that graduations have to be held elsewhere.
And a class of 550 with 10 seconds between graduates would require 90 minutes of cheer time - not including a single other part of graduation. It's just not feasible in our high schools.
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