Do you think that graduation ceremonies should wait until the students finish high school?

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Well, sure if students spend all their lives in one school (as we did in Russia, for example) but since a kid may go to a different kindergarten from their elementary school and then to a different middle school and high school, I don’t see why they can’t mark each transition with a celebration. Besides, kids need short-term goals and short-term support – that is, they can’t really conceptualize that many many many years from now, they’ll have to graduate and then they’ll celebrate. Reminding them along the way that we support them and their education is great.

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