<p>They clap after every name at our school, with some families bringing air horns, etc. We have classes of around 500 people. Needless to say, our graduation is not a very fun thing to watch, other than the 10 seconds your kid is on stage.</p>
<p>At all the schools I’ve been at (including my siblings’ schools) everyone claps for everyone when somebody has gone up for anything. Since there are parents at such occasions even if the kids made up a thing where nobody clapped for one person, the parents and teachers would clap (and I doubt the entire student body would catch on). Seriously claps are not a very selective thing from what I’ve seen, even the kids who are known to be residential d**chebags get some clapping.
Anyhow… we don’t have the handing out diplomas thing, only the students who get awards like the valedictorian come up.</p>
<p>^ You don’t get your diplomas?</p>
<p>^^That sucks. Why?</p>
<p>We get called by our name. We walk up. We get a Bible and a diploma. We stop for a picture. Then we sit down and the next name is called.</p>
<p>Needless to say, our graduation takes at long as a normal graduation does.</p>
<p>Well… not as long as CofC’s… There’s was bloody 6 hours. I was lucky and got to sit in a theater. I can’t imagine how the people sitting outside in the hot, humid Charleston summer air felt. Gawd.</p>
<p>Thread is so lame. You must be lame as hell if nobody claps for you. </p>
<p>Someone will clap unless you’re some anti-social kid with no friends.</p>
<p>^Even then someone will clap for you. XD</p>
<p>Like you will be paying attention to who is clapping for you when you are walking down the isle.</p>
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<p>Even if you have no friend, people clap for random graduates. Everyone gets applause.</p>
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<p>Yeah, you basically only notice your parents.</p>
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<p>^i’m not exactly sure why we get a Bible… We’re not a Christian school. We’re just a private school. We also say the Lord’s Prayer every day. Some kids get Torahs though.</p>
<p>Do they give the Torahs to Jewish students, or is it randomly distributed?</p>
<p>Hahaha toss a few Qur’ans and Torahs in there, just to mix things up. Nbd.</p>
<p>aww **** yeah, I got the book of mormon!</p>
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<p>He likes his Necronomicon</p>
<p>haha. No I think only Jewish kids get Torahs. Everyone else (including the mass of atheists and agnostics at my school) get the King James version of the Bible.</p>
<p>I personally have an NIV Bible and have no use for King James… but whatever floats my school’s boat. xD</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure the Buddhists and Hindus get Bibles too…</p>
<p>haha. No I think only Jewish kids get Torahs. Everyone else (including the mass of atheists and agnostics at my school) get the King James version of the Bible.</p>
<p>I personally have an NIV Bible and have no use for King James… but whatever floats my school’s boat. xD</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure the Buddhists and Hindus get Bibles too…</p>
<p>^^ why can’t the atheists and agnostics get a book on Darwinism or something instead? I am offended :(</p>
<p>I’d purposely not grab the Bible and just get the diploma. You go to school in South Carolina, so I can’t say I’m surprised.</p>
<p>It’s a private school. No one gets offended. They all chose to go here and its just a school tradition.</p>
<p>Weirdly… My school isn’t even conservative. Its very liberal and filled to the brim with yankees. Most of my friend’s parents moved here from somewhere up north.</p>
<p>Lol.</p>
<p>I remember after I graduated some guy handed me a mini-bible when I was walking out.</p>
<p>lol @ random people giving out religious paraphernalia to strangers</p>