Graduation plans have changed dramatically. Here’s how some seniors have been affected. https://insights.collegeconfidential.com/cancelled-graduations-class-of-2020
I was a first gen college graduate almost 30 years ago. My single parent mother could not afford the plane ticket from New Orleans to Boston to see my Wellesley College graduation. I crossed the stage without family . I’ve spent the past 2-3 decades looking forward to watching my first born receive her diploma. I also have a 17 yr old who will not have a HS graduation. Trying hard to stay thankful for our many life’s blessings (I am a physician working at a Covid screening center), but I too struggle with the loss of an important milestone.
Current senior here, my school is actually scheduling graduation for mid June, but who knows if that will actually happen.
DD is graduating from UC Berkeley in 2 days. She is our one and only, so getting to experience a college graduation from a parent’s perspective is not something I will probably ever experience unless she winds up moving forward with her education at some point in the future. My own graduation - first in a large, blended family - was one of the happiest days of my life. I’m so sad she - and her parents - have been robbed of the formal celebration of reaching a goal that has been 22 years in the making. The school is holding a “virtual” gradation around a Minecraft build of the entire campus as a substitute (with the Chancellor and other speakers), but you have to have an account and only a certain number of people can be on a time, apparently. We’ll celebrate in our own little way, but it is just very sad.