I don’t know—it marks the end of 12 years of “education”, and the last time the whole class will be together. It’s probably will also be the last time you will see some your classmates.
Most of all, it is an American tradition, and goodness knows, most of our traditions are being destroyed these days........
Perhaps, but it is a shortlived ritual that had little meaning in the first place. It started because so few people were educated to that level in the first place. How relevant is your graduation to you today?
Why not a huge party put on by the parents? It just seems like these graduation ceremonies for a degree that can barely get you a job flipping burgers is silly. Particularly, as they become the final adieu from a government school bureaucracy that’s wasted much of those 13 years.
Just consider summers off. If you recaptured those 3 months kids could graduate HS in their early teens and have years of apprenticeships or start a career or college earlier. Given that they graduate just about anyone drawing breath, isn’t it more of a mockery of reality or perhaps the continuation of the unreality that school has become?