Graduated!

[onodera]

If you don't show up, we call your parents, if you leave early, we call your parents, if you dissappear within the facility for more than 5 minutes we call your parents, if your parents dont pick you up within 5 minutes of the "party" ending, we call your parents, if your parents call us, we will call your parents back.

Also, having fun is mandatory. The police and PTA are there to ensure you are having fun.

[Al B. Sure!]

If you don't show up, we call your parents, if you leave early, we call your parents, if you dissappear within the facility for more than 5 minutes we call your parents, if your parents dont pick you up within 5 minutes of the "party" ending, we call your parents, if your parents call us, we will call your parents back.

So the school has a .pdf file with this information... really? The need to specify "alcohol-free, drug-free celebration" is interesting as well.

"Techno" is one of the highlights along with "Casino"?

300 (!) parent volunteers?! How many kids are in this graduating class?

It's also amusing that at a graduation party (as in, you're DONE with high school) and with a predominately 18 year old population, the school would be so draconian and have all this parents business.

It actually sounds like something I would expect out of a school for juvenile delinquents.

[BeBMan]

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

"Doors open after graduation, but only until 11pm. If you are a no-show, parents will be called.
If you leave before 5:00am, parents will be called.
Have your parents pick you up by 6:00am. Tired students are not safe drivers."


What the blue blazes?

[Hauldren Collider]

They have a school-run all night grad party to ensure kids don't get drunk and die. It's a lot more fun this way anyways.

There were a lot of parent volunteers there to run various stuff, like the monopoly money casino (which was actually pretty fun since it was heavily skewed towards winnings as opposed to losings) and a climbing wall and so on.

I don't think there were nearly 300 parents there.

[Guynemer]

Mazel tov!

[Hauldren Collider]

Thanks guy!

FCPS instituted the school-run party thing after like 20 kids died one night from drinking or something I think. I don't remember exactly how many people. It was enough to make everyone go "holy ****".

[Elok]

My school had an official grad-night celebration too, probably for similar reasons. For some reason, it didn't occur to them to forbid bringing beverages, so a lot of students brought bottles of "Sprite." Like all the rest of high school, it was a miserable, alienating experience for me. Damn, am I glad my adolescence ended that night. Anyway, congrats, and I assume you'll pick a more useful college major than I did.

I had my TEFL certification "graduation" party last Saturday, as it happens. Three jello shots, two mojitos, a screwdriver, a rum and coke and a sangria, all in about two and a half hours. Then I stumbled to the cab, had an emotional goodbye with my equally hammered classmates, then rode home to my pregnant wife so I could get a couple hours' sleep before flying to Lima yesterday morning. Good times.

[Asher]

Thanks guy!

FCPS instituted the school-run party thing after like 20 kids died one night from drinking or something I think. I don't remember exactly how many people. It was enough to make everyone go "holy ****".

Surely this is a joke?

When I graduated HS, half the kids were legal which made acquiring alcohol pretty easy. The parties were epic. No one died.

[Hauldren Collider]

It's not a joke, and the party was more fun than if everyone went to their own mediocre parties. It's more fun this way, it's safer, it's better--why are we still discussing this?

I had a lot of fun. I'm actually going to miss high school, believe it or not. Some people say it's terrible, but I've had a great time these last four years.

They kids who died weren't from TJ, by the way. This is a county-wide policy.

[Asher]

I'm just somewhat morbidly amused by the thought of 20 nerds probably having the first drinks of their life on grad night, and dying.

[Al B. Sure!]

Surely this is a joke?

When I graduated HS, half the kids were legal which made acquiring alcohol pretty easy. The parties were epic. No one died.

21 is the legal age for alcohol in the US. I suspect you know that, Asher.

And it doesn't make a difference. What's to stop someone from going, "Hey! The REAL party is at my house this weekend and I got kegs!"? Maybe the school feels responsible for the students presumably the night of graduation, but not a few days later or something?

[Hauldren Collider]

Nothing stops them from doing that, yet as I recall accidents, drunk driving and deaths all pretty much went to zero after they put up this policy, so I think it was a success.

[Asher]

21 is the legal age for alcohol in the US. I suspect you know that, Asher.

Yes, why the **** is that relevant to my experience in Canada?

I'm just demonstrating the gap in competence between Canadian youths and American youths.

The drinking age is 18 here, because we're not a nanny state like the US Government wants to be. Hell, in Alberta you can drive at 14, too. Maybe we're just smarter people in general.

[Asher]

Oh, and Congrats.