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Why is it that children nowadays...
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Kentishmaid | Report | 6 Aug 2021 16:28 |
have to graduate from pre-school? I remember my grandson did it a few years ago and there is coverage of a graduation in our local paper this week |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 6 Aug 2021 16:30 |
Whaaaaat!! |
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Island | Report | 6 Aug 2021 16:35 |
we just sloped off home :-( |
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KathleenBell | Report | 6 Aug 2021 16:36 |
I think it has become a "thing" these days. My grandson left nursery to go to "big school" in 2003 and they had a graduation ceremony. It was the first time I had heard of such a thing. They all had a piece of cloth round them like gowns and the kids had all made their own mortar boards and coloured them in. |
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Kentishmaid | Report | 6 Aug 2021 16:39 |
A competition and in my opinion an unnecessary expense. |
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Kentishmaid | Report | 6 Aug 2021 16:42 |
Island, I feel for you, it must have caused untold damage :-) |
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nameslessone | Report | 6 Aug 2021 16:57 |
No nurseries in my day. Also no school graduation, no prom and no school discos. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 6 Aug 2021 16:58 |
And doesn't it 'downgrade' the real graduation ceremonies of students? |
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nameslessone | Report | 6 Aug 2021 17:04 |
We didn’t even have a special day to commemorate the opening of the school/ founders name day. |
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Kentishmaid | Report | 6 Aug 2021 17:06 |
I think it does Ann. Slightly off topic, a few years ago I did the first year of a combined studies course at Uni and was invited to Canterbury Cathedral as a graduate !!! I didn't go, on principal. Total farce |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 6 Aug 2021 17:28 |
At school from age 4 to 19, only "graduation" we had was from high school |
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Kentishmaid | Report | 6 Aug 2021 18:50 |
I can remember going to my son's Prize Giving, that would be 30 odd years ago !! Do they still have them? |
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Dermot | Report | 6 Aug 2021 20:59 |
Some of my forebears were lucky to survive the local Hedge Schools. ;-) |
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Allan | Report | 6 Aug 2021 21:59 |
As far as I am concerned the only Graduation is from University where students have always (as far as I'm aware) been called Undergraduates until obtaining their first Degree. |
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Kentishmaid | Report | 7 Aug 2021 08:25 |
I had to look up Hedge Schools Dermot as I had not come across the expression before, made for interesting reading. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 7 Aug 2021 09:09 |
The companies that hire out the Graduation robes would have been hit too. |
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Kentishmaid | Report | 7 Aug 2021 09:33 |
Not sure Gwyn but in the photos the children were all identically attired, and it certainly didn't look like something Mum had knocked up the night before lol |
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ZZzzz | Report | 7 Aug 2021 11:41 |
Our son left school 1998 the "thing" then was to have their shirts or blouses signed by others in school including teachers, some of the comments were inappropriate but funny, one teacher wrote nice lad shame about the hair, he had tried to bleach it to be blonde but it turned out orange. |
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Kentishmaid | Report | 7 Aug 2021 11:48 |
Your mention of having shirts signed has reminded me, that was what my son did when he left senior school1992. |
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LindainHerriotCountry | Report | 7 Aug 2021 11:55 |
My granddaughters had a graduation ceremony when they left nursery to go to real school. The nursery have mini gowns and mortar boards which they dress the kids in. They are given a scroll to keep. All rather naff, but it doesn’t cost the parents anything and they have a family picnic afterwards. My oldest granddaughter left primary school this week and they were all told to bring a spare uniform polo shirt in for all the class to sign. I can remember my daughter doing that , but not until she left sixth form. |