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Originally Posted by carnation
 Today, our 8th child graduated from high school. We noticed that one girl--who's maybe the biggest B at the school--was wearing honors regalia and a teacher stared at her and said, "That must be her older sister's; believe me, she didn't graduate with any honors." (We've known the kid for years and we figured that out early on. Evil jerk.)
I asked my son about it and he said that a lot of people walked with friends' or siblings' past regalia. I was  ; as a former college professor, I can't believe that someone would do that. This son didn't graduate with honors--he was 0.2 of a point short--and we wouldn't have dreamed of heaping his older siblings' regalia on him.
Has anyone else heard of this? |
I haven't heard of this at high schools (I've found it to be common at the university level). But it does remind me of a funny story. When I graduated from high school, those of us receiving academic honors were presented with grad stolls at an assembly prior to commencement. When the cheer squad saw this, they decided to run out and buy these funky looking cheer medals with purple cords to wear to graduation. Mind you, several of these girls were benched for having lower than a 2.0 GPA.
