Graduation

Jun 2, 2009 at 5:37 PM
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Days like this, I love my job. Sure, there are two more weeks of school left before summer, but for scheduling reasons, we had our "graduation" tonight. We get together with the other classes in our program (those are the ones who want to be engineering and medical professionals - mine want to be teachers and lawyers) and handed out compliments and certificates. My guys got me flowers and thanked me on stage, then I got to tell all their parents how awesome they are, and mean it. People might complain about "kids these days," but from where I stand, the future looks like it is in the hands of some smart, funny, compassionate, and motivated people. I couldn't be prouder.

I tried removing the red eye, but it just made everyone look freaky

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This may be my ignorance of things American, but what's with the blue skipping ropes?

So, how do I explain the skipping ropes... American high schools have fancy graduation ceremonies complete with cap and gown. Honors societies give out cords, tassels and/or pins to wear. Since they don't officially graduate from us, but from the home schools, we give them a cord in our colors to wear to show their New Visions achievement. The kids, weirdly enough, love them. One of my boys will be totally blinged out with three cap tassels and about 4 cords.

Also, some kindergartens dress the kids up in cap and gown for "graduation." I wish I was kidding.

I want to say something like great teachers make great students, but that just sounds weird. Maybe you get the point anyway!

Thank you Michelle. I do get the point and I appreciate it. Although lots of the good work was done with these guys well before I ever met them.

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