Does anyone really think we will be back to normal by the end of may or beginning of june...I sure dont.
BCPS Superintendent Cancels All Senior Proms
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HSTD
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Cancelling the prom & possibly a graduation ceremony certainly sucks.
But it is the right thing to do.
I would hate to lose my daughter, because she caught the plague at graduation.
But it is the right thing to do.
I would hate to lose my daughter, because she caught the plague at graduation.
Skipjacks
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Well that is a high and mighty pompous post if I ever saw one
omegared24
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I wouldn't say you have thick skin. I would say you kinda maybe have semi thick skin.
It was cancelled...get over it. My senior did in 30 seconds...or less.
It was cancelled...get over it. My senior did in 30 seconds...or less.
This.
While I can certainly sympathize with a high school girl's prom aspirations, nothing is even remotely normal right now. Job one is to ensure as well as possible that she and all of her friends and family will hopefully be around to be able to dance
at her wedding.
Ruby alludes to thoughts of a Stephen King novel.
We're as close as many will ever know to living in one.
I used that word in a teenage context. The better choice and probably more accurate description would have been Very Disappointed. For our friends their daughter is college bound and over time, not having a prom will be something to talk about when looking back on 2020. However my wife teaches a lot of kids who will never be able to afford college and or have the skills or discipline to graduate if they could go. For those who didn’t get kicked put or drop out, graduation and Prom may be the two most ceremonial events in their lives. Maybe a bigger celebration than getting married to baby daddy number three years from now.
While COVID19 will come and go, the impact on our society may be felt and remembered for a long time. My hope is that maybe this generation of young people will stop taking life for granite and actually choose to participate in directing their future as opposed to letting it be handed to, and ungratefully accepted, by them.
I'm thinking mid to late June in Maryland. China had Wuhan on lockdown (and a more strictly enforced one) for 2.5 months, iirc. Our current models predict an infection peak under the present conditions for sometime in May. Got to wait sometime for that peak to come down.
Providing pressure from a different direction, the federal government extended the tax deadline to July 15 which MD followed of course. People, if they use tax preparers, need time to see them.
My kid is the same. He and his girlfriend did prom last year, and while looking forward to it this senior year, was basically so what with it not happening. If commencement wasn't in limbo, he'd have a good chance to be one of the speakers, but I don't think he is upset that this (once in a lifetime) opportunity won't happen. Sees what's happening in the world and is now more focused on how to have a productive summer given current circumstances.
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No.
If kids now can't learn to deal withthe disappointment of prom being cancelled, just imagine how they'll handle AGC being closed as adults
smokey
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I get it. My post was mainly meant to be a quick light-hearted joke about how things seem important now because they lack context to compare it to. Growing up as sheltered as kids are now, they genuinely don't understand how bad the world is/has always been. It's like when kids say, "this is the worst day of my liiiiiiiiiife" because of some trivial thing. The response is usually, "wow, you've had a GREAT life". They don't get how things they view as needs are actually just unimportant(in the scheme of things) wants. This is a function of parents that have tackled problems for their kids and provided a safe and loving world for them to thrive in.
In more extreme examples, parents completely let their kids call the shots while doing all the work for them. Kids end up both entitled and helpless. In more beneficial circumstances, parents give their kids a safe and loving home, but require kids to solve their own problems and purposely expose them to some of the negative/painful sides of life to prepare them for them. That's where we're trying to go in the smokey household with my sons, but I still see them wildly unaware of how good they have it...we'll remedy that more and more as they age.
I also get the kids that live for the now because they don't see a future. Every year at 5th grade graduation, the lowest income kids have the most bananas cheering section with lots of money tossed into hair/nails/dresses/suits. I'm fine seeing this get crushed, as I think it's pathogenic. These kids need the same expectations that graduation is a beginning and not an ending.
HSTD
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I think it's a pretty realistic one, and that most people would feel the same way about their children and other members of their family.
This isn't going to be over by May, and maybe not even by June.
Plus, everyone at the prom would have seen the OP's daughter's dirty pillows.
Sounds like a great learning opportunity about what is important in life.
Did anyone really think prom was still going to happen?
Obviously at least 1 person did.
Could be worse. You could be someone like Martin's Catering where EVERY prom and wedding has been canceled for the next two months at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars and hundreds of jobs.
Learning disappointment at 18 is not a bad thing.
Reading this thread backwards. For the schools that she likes, are there gap year options? I bet a lot of kids will do this instead of paying full tuition for remote learning in fall. Many have deadlines in May to request (one that my kid is interested is May 8 and another is July 1). Most tend to be by mid May so schools can give acceptances to waitlist kids for the upcoming academic term. Gives another year to set aside money as well, and if your kid has a job, for the kid to earn.
Sorry, but walking at graduation and going to senior prom are hardly worth getting in a tizzy over. I worked the night of my senior prom and my girlfriend (now wife) went with her friends. Walking at graduation was more of a pain in the neck, because we graduated at DAR Constitution Hall and it was an obnoxious ordeal.
Personally, I'd prefer advance notice so I don't have to buy a dress for my daughter for an event that is unlikely to happen anyways.
I'm sure the teenage child sees this as a horrible tragedy, but as a grown man I'm a little embarrassed for some of you, having read it...
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Personally, I'd prefer advance notice so I don't have to buy a dress for my daughter for an event that is unlikely to happen anyways.
I'm sure the teenage child sees this as a horrible tragedy, but as a grown man I'm a little embarrassed for some of you, having read it...
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Hell. My daughter didn't even walk for her college graduation. She got her degree and that's what she went to college for.
august1410
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Mine is slated to graduate in May. She doesn't care about the walk or the ceremony. She just wants her degree.
randomuser
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Looking back in life I don't know anyone who feels like walking to get their diploma changed their life. In the moment I'm sure that many would be upset but after the fact....meh. thinking deeply about it...it's not really that special if any idiot who shows up can get one too.
As a dad though, I feel for your daughter and understand how you feel.
As a dad though, I feel for your daughter and understand how you feel.
aquaman
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Those numbers mean nothing without context. Regular flu killed 34,200 in the 2018/2019 flu season per the CDC.
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