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[tsuki_no_bara]

i feel like i missed a birthday or an anniversary or something. huh

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[embroiderama]

When I graduated high school (19 years ago OMG!) it was held in the gym due to the threat of a storm, but otherwise it would have been on the football field. Now, however, all the high schools in this area hold their graduations in a indoor sports stadium belonging to a local university. Thereby creating terrible traffic downtown for about two weeks. :|

When I was in ninth grade advanced kids took Geometry and regular kids took Algebra I.

[tsuki_no_bara]

why are they all at the same stadium now? for the space? i mean, i get why you'd want to make provisions for having your graduation indoors (and thank god it didn't rain on mine) but for every school to decide to use the same stadium is kind of weird.

i keep thinking i took geometry in eighth grade but i'm not sure if that's actually true or if i'm remembering wrong. and then i conflate it with trigonometry and i'm really confused.

[embroiderama]

I think it's a combination of a) school systems not wanting to deal with the weather issue, b) parents not wanting to sit on bleachers in gyms and c) people wanting more tickets to graduation. The university is state-owned, and apparently the schools only have to pay for security and parking deck use, etc.

Trig, at least for me, was later. In both PA and VA, to my knowledge it was the same. Algebra I, then Geometry, then Algebra II. Then, in varying combinations, Trig, Pre-Calc, Calculus.

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[celli]

My HS grad in 1993 was in the city center where they have rock concerts and hockey games. I believe they're still being held there.

(Unhelpful but interesting factoid - my mom's graduation in 1973 was held outside on the baseball field. Lots of sunburned heads.)

For me 9th grade math was hell Algebra 1, I think - first D I ever got. Shiny. Probably if I hadn't skipped it every chance I got, I wouldn't have continued to suck at math until I discovered Excel.

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[tsuki_no_bara]

i am incredibly amused that you sucked at math. i was good at it, i just didn't like it. and the one time i skipped class - i think i was a senior and we had a substitute, and the entire class cut - i got detention. but so did everyone else, and the teacher who was doing detention was quite surprised to suddenly find a bunch of honors students staying after school.

[deaver]

Our graduation was meant to be on the football field (with friends and family seated in the stands and us seated on chairs in the field) but about 2 hours before the ceremony it started to rain so the whole graduating class spent that time moving the ceremony (and the soggy decorations) into the gymnasium.

Hmm, 9th grade math. I was in the advanced class so we did Pre-Algebra for the first two quarters and then did, I think, regular old Algebra mixed with some Pre-Calculus for the second two. The non-advanced kids did basic math followed by two quarters where they could choose between continuing in basic math or go on to accounting. (We had a strange school, though, because it was very, very small and often we were at very different levels than kids from large schools.)

[tsuki_no_bara]

i'm really glad my graduation didn't get rained on, because it would've sucked to have to move all of us and everyone who came to watch us into the auditorium. altho they might've put us in the gym.... i don't remember decorations, tho. just chairs.

you had pre-cal in ninth grade?? dude. i think i did pre-cal as a junior. i love that accounting was an option, tho.

[deaver]

I think we only had about 2, maybe 3, weeks of Pre-Calc. And I think the only reason we had it was that there were only 18 of us in the class and we had cruised through (with an average grade of 92%) the Algebra stuff so fast our teacher decided to challenge us for the last few weeks of school. It was nice to be in a time when the teachers could teach to the level of the class rather than teach to the level of the next standardized test. I'm not sure that happens much anymore. Also, I doubt many classes only have 18 students these days!

[bleedtoblue]

My high school graduation was held in the gym, no idea why! We had a huge auditorium! There were chairs on the gym floor and I don't think they even bothered to pull out the bleachers.

[tsuki_no_bara]

that does seem kind of stupid. you don't have to set up in an auditorium! and there's already a stage for giving speeches and presenting diplomas and everything! the only reason to have it in the gym instead is if you can get more people in than in the auditorium. weird!

[tsuki_no_bara]

i bet your graduation was nice on the lawn. (and i kind of like that the school used to be a hospital. heh.) did your sister's hs have it at the university just for the space?

[tsuki_no_bara]

having all the graduations on the same day strikes me as excessively stupid. i'm guessing there's a reason they did it that way, but still, that's dumb.