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[hckynutjohn]

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@Biftu wrote:

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@hckynutjohn wrote:

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@RollTide2008 wrote:
@mamaslittlepotato. Maybe she’s in a group home and there isn’t even a foster family.





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"And honestly, what is a 10 year old graduating from"?

@RollTide2008 

I was wondering the same thing. Since we have no human kids, seems like they have changed the word "passing " to the next grade to "graduating". No report cards, just graduation certificates.

My record? Not 1 single graduation ceremony for me. But I did "pass" to the next higher class.

hckynut 🇺🇸

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Graduating from grammar school to middle school.  And yes they still get report cards.  Sorry you had no graduations, they mark passings in time.  I've had three: grammar school, high school and college.

@Biftu 

During my school years there were only "grade school" and "high school", and that's what they were called. There were no "grammar and middle". My No Report Cards was a misnomer, sorry bout that.

No need to be sorry, the issues I had were all brought on by me. Summer school got me out of "grade school" and "sophomore to junior year". These marked my passages of time.

The United States Army gave me my GED. Not 1 ceremony involved in any of them, but I am not a ceremonial person. After serving 6 years, this marked my passage of time. The last moved me to being a Military Veteran.

hckynut 🇺🇸

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[KingstonMom]

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@They CallMe MRWILKES wrote:

If the forums are meant to be only about a "fun experience" there goes most of Wellness as well as much of Among Friends and Mom to Mom.

I missed where it says the forums are limited solely and exclusively to "fun" topics, however that is defined. 

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@They CallMe MRWILKES 

That's why I put air quotes around 'fun', it wasn't made to be taken completely literally.

Sorry you misunderstood.

[Love to Run]

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@Biftu wrote:

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@hckynutjohn wrote:

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@RollTide2008 wrote:
@mamaslittlepotato. Maybe she’s in a group home and there isn’t even a foster family.





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"And honestly, what is a 10 year old graduating from"?

@RollTide2008 

I was wondering the same thing. Since we have no human kids, seems like they have changed the word "passing " to the next grade to "graduating". No report cards, just graduation certificates.

My record? Not 1 single graduation ceremony for me. But I did "pass" to the next higher class.

hckynut 🇺🇸

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Graduating from grammar school to middle school.  And yes they still get report cards.  Sorry you had no graduations, they mark passings in time.  I've had three: grammar school, high school and college.

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I don't know any educators who refer to these promotion ceremonies as "graduations". There's only one graduation, and that's from secondary school.

[Biftu]

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@Love to Run wrote:

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@Biftu wrote:

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@hckynutjohn wrote:

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@RollTide2008 wrote:
@mamaslittlepotato. Maybe she’s in a group home and there isn’t even a foster family.





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"And honestly, what is a 10 year old graduating from"?

@RollTide2008 

I was wondering the same thing. Since we have no human kids, seems like they have changed the word "passing " to the next grade to "graduating". No report cards, just graduation certificates.

My record? Not 1 single graduation ceremony for me. But I did "pass" to the next higher class.

hckynut 🇺🇸

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Graduating from grammar school to middle school.  And yes they still get report cards.  Sorry you had no graduations, they mark passings in time.  I've had three: grammar school, high school and college.

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I don't know any educators who refer to these promotion ceremonies as "graduations". There's only one graduation, and that's from secondary school.

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Guess school districts can call these ceremonies whatever they please.  Times change.  What does it matter in any case, they're moving on be it a promotion or a graduation.  Not just one graduation, I graduated from college as well.

[Cakers3]

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@Biftu wrote:

My friend attended her ten year old granddaughter's graduation ceremony.  She noticed a little girl sitting alone holding her diploma and crying her eyes out.  She decided to find a teacher who went over to the little girl.  Later my friend saw the little girl with the teacher smiling and laughing.  Seems the girl is a foster child.  So sad.

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@Biftu  😢

I'm not a fan of the disclosure by the teacher that this child is a foster child but I am also not going to guess why the foster(s) were not there. I don't know them or their story.

I hope this child will have a good life and a bright future. As long as there will always be people to care for her she will be ok.

[Cakers3]

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@KingstonMom wrote:

Why the depressing children threads lately?

I thought the forums was supposed to be a 'fun eperience'......guess not lately.

Yesterday a thread about a child dying when her Mom left her alone, while Mom went on a vacation, now this.

Oh well, I can always read elsewhere.

Carry on!

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@KingstonMom  Why not?  A reminder of what some children experience, to me, matters more than all the stale hen clucking about others in the news.

Perhaps some of these stories will prompt some to help out in 

real life instead of sitting around here yakking about insignificant...um... gossip.

Just saying.