Grad news and other odds and ends.

[aome]

First off, a question, particular for Americans: Is there a standard color dress girls wear to graduation, regardless of what color cap/gowns they wear? (purpleink, I'm not asking you. ;) )

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[meathiel]

That sounds like a good idea for graduation ... they at least have some kind of festivity then. Great.

[aome]

:-)

[spiffikins]

I cannot speak to the "rules" for what you wear under your robes - I honestly don't remember what I wore under my robe although I think it must have been a skirt of some type, since there were nylons and nice shoes (aka uncomfortable ones) involved. I do know that whatever I wore was definitely not long enough to SHOW out from under the robes, so it really didn't matter what colour it was :D It was key for me that it NOT show

[aome]

Heh - I remember having 2-2.5" white heels for my graduation, and they were definitely uncomfortable! (I almost never wear heels higher than 1" - in fact, I wore flats to my own wedding, lol.) But for the actual dress, it was a light blue floral number I had sewn myself.

MiniPlu was on the slightly shorter end of the robe size I ordered (the white one) from Amazon, so hers comes down a little lower in the mid-calf range. No idea how long the red one will be. I think I remember everyone's being about that mid-calf length for my graduation, too.

I'm surprised you would have a leaving ceremony so far ahead of final exams! Why not wait until after exams? The "hand the VP something" tradition sounds hilarious, though.

Since our staged ceremony will be a couple of weeks before the term ends, I'm wondering - for those kids who ended up NOT passing their classes, will their video snippet be removed when the graduation ceremony is "assembled"?

[spiffikins]

I'm surprised you would have a leaving ceremony so far ahead of final exams! Why not wait until after exams?

It wasn't that far in advance, I guess? Usually it was around the Canadian May long weekend - which is the 3rd Monday in May - always a week before Memorial Day. Our classes ended a couple of weeks later, and finals started in early June and went through mid-June.

I guess the idea was to get graduation and prom over and done with, so that we could focus on studying for exams?

[hamsterwoman]

That sounds like a pretty good way to salvage graduation! I'm glad the school came up with something that's still special and can be assembled into a full ceremony.

I have never heard of a special graduation dress color. We also had everyone, boys and girls, wearing the same color robes, so I was surpried when you mentioned that was a departure for MiniPlu's school.

There is no clarity from UCSB for Fall either, except that it seems hybrid classes would be a possibility -- video/remote lectures but in-person discussion and labs, maybe spread out, with remote options. And they may be allowed back on campus, but it's unclear to me how they'll fit people in, since they'll have to go from mostly triples in the dorms to singles/doubles...

O had his AP Physics exam this past week and has two more next week, and after that basically nothing for a month, I guess XP

[aome]

What color did L wear under her robes? And what color robes does everyone get at Lowell? Most schools I've seen have had boys wear one school color and girls wear the other. Ours was already unusual for having red/black as the school colors but having white/black robes (and GREEN for the stupid drape "gown" photos in senior pictures). Someone mentioned to me that with new awareness on gender issues, maybe our school decided to just do one color for everyone. MiniPlu's objections for the red are:

a) She doesn't think it looks as classy as the black/white
b) The 8th graders at our middle school wear the exact same red robes at their graduation, just without the caps, so half the seniors will have worn this color already and now it's not special.
c) For those kids who are Catholic, they will ALSO have worn an almost exactly the same red robe for Confirmation (the only difference being an emblem on the robe - the rest of the robe is the same), which means those kids will now be wearing a red robe/gown for the THIRD time

[schnoogle]

There was no standard colour when I ended high school. We had to wear school uniform for the last day of Year 12 which was the closest thing we had to a “graduation” but no caps/gowns and took place before final exams. For the formal (like a prom) your dress could be whatever colour you wanted.

MiniPlu’s high school’s way of providing a COVID-19-friendly graduation sounds really nice, under the circumstances!

I just saw this toy on Facebook and thought of MiniPlu! https://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/coronavirus-graduation.html