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I've got what I'm sure is going to be an unpopular opinion. But honestly that's my favorite kind of opinion. Also is it even an opinion if people don't disagree with it? As in would the absence of argument render an opinion a fact.
Well, yay for me because I've just given myself a headache with that deep thought so let's just move on to my current unpopular opinion which is (drum roll please) that there are way too many graduation ceremonies. As in the popularization of graduation ceremonies for almost grade level has cheapened, (too harsh?) the commencement ceremony experience.
Back in the day (which has become my favorite day) there were two graduations one usually experienced in life – high school and college. Now it's a graduation palooza.
As a parent you can count on your child having a preschool graduation, kindergarten, end of elementary school and middle school commencements along with the O.G. high school graduation. In some schools every grade level has a grad event.
When I had the opportunity to bemoan the graduation proliferation to a group of strangers their responses were interesting. The reason, if you're wondering, why I sought out people I didn't know instead of family or friends to give my opinion a test drive is because I'm all about having an unbiased data set.
Okay not really. The real reason is because friends and most definitely my family quit listening to me a long time ago. So, I guess what I'm saying is I needed people who had no preconceived notions that I'm crazy.
Now, the most probing question that I was asked after I shared my graduation opinion was what commencement ceremonies do I think should be cut?
My knee jerk reaction was to be a curmudgeon and say all of them expect high school. But then I remembered my son's kindergarten graduation and to this day it was one of the cutest things I've ever witnessed. All the kids had on cherry red graduation robes with mortar boards delightfully askew on their heads and they were beyond adorable.
So, since there's nothing adorable about middle school maybe that should be cut and elementary school graduation should perhaps be downgraded to a picnic.
Based on my history with elementary school graduation I knew this statement might rile up some people. When one of my children was in 6th grade a group of parents started a petition to have a sixth-grade graduation and got almost every mom in the grade to sign it. I even caved to the peer pressure even though I was firmly albeit secretly opposed.
These petition wielding moms were fierce and I was a little scared of the retaliation headed my way if I didn't acquiesce to their demands. Forget about being shunned, I can handle that. It's kind of my go to lifestyle. I was more worried about my car getting keyed.
Fortunately, the principal of the school remained valiant and there was no graduation. The fact that he was transferred to another school soon thereafter wasn't a coincidence. These moms got their retribution.
Another question that was thrown at me was why do I care about graduation ceremonies since I had shared that my children were adults? I explained that things that no longer personally affect me can still annoy me. This prompted someone to say I needed to get a life.
Sure, I could have argued that statement but it would have been a wasted effort. Because it's hard for a lot of people to understand that being annoyed can be energizing and even encourages profound thinking like can an uncontested opinion morph into a fact and just why does a third grader need a graduation ceremony?
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