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Post by ajbuckeye on May 18, 2020 19:25:30 GMT
My daughter graduated from High School and my Son graduated from West Virginia. Both virtual graduations went on at the same time but my daughter did have an in person moment which was pretty cool. They streamed the virtual graduation where every student got to walk on the stage one at time with there parents and we got to give them their diploma. It was a 8 hour process but each student got there 1 minute in the spotlight. My daughter has been handling this pretty well but she did break down after it was over. They never really got to say good bye to there teachers and this was the moment where they got to say good bye to a few of them. Meantime, we were also watching my son's virtual graduation and the finished it off with the students, teachers, and Brad Paisley all singing Country Roads. WVU definitely grew on me and with out a doubt it helped my son grow from a wide eyed boy into a man. I am still amazed at the transformation. He ended up getting a job with DHL and will be working in Cincinnati. At the moment my daughter plans to go the UCinti. Just talking with her she still seems interested in tOSU. If the corona shuts down the campuses it may be Sinclair for a semester and then apply to tOSU.
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Post by EvilVodka on May 18, 2020 23:55:24 GMT
Congratulations!!
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Post by ajbuckeye on May 19, 2020 0:34:11 GMT
Thanks Evil! I truly think the kids handled this much much better than many of the parents did. My facebook account got hacked about almost 2 months ago but some of the rants of the parents were almost unbelievable. Things are starting to open up in my neck of the woods and so far no spikes. Hopefully things stay that way. |
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Post by Bevo on May 20, 2020 0:30:48 GMT
My daughter graduated from High School and my Son graduated from West Virginia. Both virtual graduations went on at the same time but my daughter did have an in person moment which was pretty cool. They streamed the virtual graduation where every student got to walk on the stage one at time with there parents and we got to give them their diploma. It was a 8 hour process but each student got there 1 minute in the spotlight. My daughter has been handling this pretty well but she did break down after it was over. They never really got to say good bye to there teachers and this was the moment where they got to say good bye to a few of them. Meantime, we were also watching my son's virtual graduation and the finished it off with the students, teachers, and Brad Paisley all singing Country Roads. WVU definitely grew on me and with out a doubt it helped my son grow from a wide eyed boy into a man. I am still amazed at the transformation. He ended up getting a job with DHL and will be working in Cincinnati. At the moment my daughter plans to go the UCinti. Just talking with her she still seems interested in tOSU. If the corona shuts down the campuses it may be Sinclair for a semester and then apply to tOSU. Great story. This is such a hard time for graduates, at every level. I can't believe you had to deal with two of them. But, just think... for the rest of their lives, they have an interesting story to tell. They were the class most affected by COVID. Congrats on getting your kids this far. It just gets better and better from here, my friend! |
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Post by doc on May 20, 2020 12:48:28 GMT
My daughter graduated from High School and my Son graduated from West Virginia. Both virtual graduations went on at the same time but my daughter did have an in person moment which was pretty cool. They streamed the virtual graduation where every student got to walk on the stage one at time with there parents and we got to give them their diploma. It was a 8 hour process but each student got there 1 minute in the spotlight. My daughter has been handling this pretty well but she did break down after it was over. They never really got to say good bye to there teachers and this was the moment where they got to say good bye to a few of them. Meantime, we were also watching my son's virtual graduation and the finished it off with the students, teachers, and Brad Paisley all singing Country Roads. WVU definitely grew on me and with out a doubt it helped my son grow from a wide eyed boy into a man. I am still amazed at the transformation. He ended up getting a job with DHL and will be working in Cincinnati. At the moment my daughter plans to go the UCinti. Just talking with her she still seems interested in tOSU. If the corona shuts down the campuses it may be Sinclair for a semester and then apply to tOSU. Congratulations on your crazy weekend. I believe you said you're in the Dayton area - did your daughter go to CJ? I recall we talked about CJ before. I saw a pretty cool graduation recognition this past weekend while we were out riding our bikes. We were close to Caesars Creek and we could see a bunch of emergency vehicles coming toward us. As it turned out there was a school bus in front of the vehicles - fire engines, squad cars, sheriff cars all with their sirens running, there must have been 10 of them - they we're honking their horns and waving. It was in the Clinton Massie school district and as it turned out, they were driving by all the graduates homes to salute them. We saw several out in their drive ways in their cap and gowns. Given our route, we passed the emergency vehicle parade several times, I don't think Clinton Massie is a very big school but still a great way to salute this kids. I just hope there weren't any emergencies in Clarksville and the surrounding area because all the trucks and officers were busy with the parade. |
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Post by ajbuckeye on May 22, 2020 14:07:19 GMT
These communities are doing some pretty creative things to make up for lost moments. Pretty cool what Clinton Massie did. In a few weeks my daughter is going to have her prom. It is not a school event but will be held in a barn at one of the parents homes. Quite honestly, the actual prom was something the kids just showed up to before they went to the main event after prom.
My kids ended up going to Bellbrook. We thought about the catholic school route but Bellbrook was a smaller school district (200 per class) and seemed to have a lot of parental involvement.
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Post by doc on May 22, 2020 20:51:02 GMT
We chose the Catholic schools for basically the same reason. Mason schools have about 1,000 kids per class/grade and that's just too big. Our sons were in a class size of about 220 at Moeller and our daughter's was 185 at MND. Plus, I have to say the all boy/all girl schools played well for our kids, especially our daughter. I know there aren't any schools like that in Dayton but not having to deal with all the boy/girl drama was such a bonus. And our kids' sports team wound up providing great social activities for us as parents. As for parent involvement, there may have been too much at Moeller but MND was perfect. I can't say enough good things about that school - I actually served on the board there for 6 years and it is just a wonderful school.
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