Pomp, Circumstance and, CDs.
My middle child is graduated. The ceremony was brief, the weather was lovely, and my midwestern sensibilities were offended. While I was so excited for my kiddo to graduate, remembering the pomp and circumstance of my own graduation and then the same for my firstborn's graduation, the Florida graduation we sat through... When I graduated, there were not quite 400 in our graduating class. My firstborn, there were over 1400 (huge high school!), and now my middle child - around 300? It was obvious who used chatgpt for their speeches and who didn't. I found it odd that there was no specific valedictorian or salutatorian. And, while there were the random air horns being blown and the standard clapping, hooting and hollering from the crowd, what offended me was the fact that there were several people that left as soon as their childs name was called and they crossed the stage. In my mind, and the way that I was raised how it was supposed to be, is tha...
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