On Tuesday we attended Reed's 8th grade graduation. Now, don't take me wrong.... I am happy that Reed is moving on to high school....and extremely grateful that he passed all of his classes.......but is a graduation ceremony really necessary? It seems to me that the only graduation that has some merit is high school....rounding out the whole "education accomplishment". We sat on the bleachers for 2 hours, each speaker repeated what the first speaker said, and then watched a parade of gangly boys in dress clothes and girls dressed for "the club" walk back to the tennis courts. There were around 500 graduates of which there were 86 valedictorians. That number seemed a little too high to me. I think there were 2 in my class...maybe 3.... is school getting easier? Are the kids getting smarter? or is just everyone a winner now days?
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