[lYVgWWcP]

Congrats, HC.

[Soadiassy]

Hopefully hooker and blow were involved in the partying. It works for Charlie Sheen.

[tramadoldiscountes]

Good boy.

[PIORARMADDERI]

Thanks everyone!

[Rememavotscam]

Congratulations HC

[byncnombmub]

Congrats HC

I just got notification of passing the modules for the second semester of my MSc and am having a drop or two of champagne for that, so I raise my glass to you, sir.

[ionitiesk]

Congrats. Whatever level it was.

I think he graduated from high school.

Congratulations, HC.

[rasiasertew]

If you don't show up, we call your parents, if you leave early, we call your parents, if you dissappear within the facility for more than 5 minutes we call your parents, if your parents dont pick you up within 5 minutes of the "party" ending, we call your parents, if your parents call us, we will call your parents back.

So the school has a .pdf file with this information... really? The need to specify "alcohol-free, drug-free celebration" is interesting as well.

"Techno" is one of the highlights along with "Casino"?

300 (!) parent volunteers?! How many kids are in this graduating class?

It's also amusing that at a graduation party (as in, you're DONE with high school) and with a predominately 18 year old population, the school would be so draconian and have all this parents business.

It actually sounds like something I would expect out of a school for juvenile delinquents.

[DfrtYhyu]

"Doors open after graduation, but only until 11pm. If you are a no-show, parents will be called.
If you leave before 5:00am, parents will be called.
Have your parents pick you up by 6:00am. Tired students are not safe drivers."


What the blue blazes?

[L0KoxewQ]

Mazel tov!

[sEe]

My school had an official grad-night celebration too, probably for similar reasons. For some reason, it didn't occur to them to forbid bringing beverages, so a lot of students brought bottles of "Sprite." Like all the rest of high school, it was a miserable, alienating experience for me. Damn, am I glad my adolescence ended that night. Anyway, congrats, and I assume you'll pick a more useful college major than I did.

I had my TEFL certification "graduation" party last Saturday, as it happens. Three jello shots, two mojitos, a screwdriver, a rum and coke and a sangria, all in about two and a half hours. Then I stumbled to the cab, had an emotional goodbye with my equally hammered classmates, then rode home to my pregnant wife so I could get a couple hours' sleep before flying to Lima yesterday morning. Good times.

[Zugaxxsn]

It's not a joke, and the party was more fun than if everyone went to their own mediocre parties. It's more fun this way, it's safer, it's better--why are we still discussing this?

I had a lot of fun. I'm actually going to miss high school, believe it or not. Some people say it's terrible, but I've had a great time these last four years.

They kids who died weren't from TJ, by the way. This is a county-wide policy.

[blogforloversxx]

Surely this is a joke?

When I graduated HS, half the kids were legal which made acquiring alcohol pretty easy. The parties were epic. No one died.

21 is the legal age for alcohol in the US. I suspect you know that, Asher.

And it doesn't make a difference. What's to stop someone from going, "Hey! The REAL party is at my house this weekend and I got kegs!"? Maybe the school feels responsible for the students presumably the night of graduation, but not a few days later or something?

[VovTortki]

21 is the legal age for alcohol in the US. I suspect you know that, Asher.

Yes, why the **** is that relevant to my experience in Canada?

I'm just demonstrating the gap in competence between Canadian youths and American youths.

The drinking age is 18 here, because we're not a nanny state like the US Government wants to be. Hell, in Alberta you can drive at 14, too. Maybe we're just smarter people in general.

[Illisezek]

btw, you might find this terrifying but HC has an identical twin.

He must be the smart son, as he doesn't post here.

[ViaplyVuple]

In Stockholm, on graduation day, all the students (age ~17) seem to be put on big trucks (industrial/etc, not private ones) which drive around the city while the students standing inside the back drinking beer, spraying it on each-other, screaming and making noises (and sometimes flashing the people in the city). I thought it was strange.

JM

[RsQhyZyR]

Kirk? Wut?

[WebDocMan]

Then how come he never had the replicator engineer him pollo a la brasa with a pisco sour?

[TeapseTic]

In Stockholm, on graduation day, all the students (age ~17) seem to be put on big trucks (industrial/etc, not private ones) which drive around the city while the students standing inside the back drinking beer, spraying it on each-other, screaming and making noises (and sometimes flashing the people in the city). I thought it was strange.

JM

Not strange at all - you can see the same in Denmark and probably Norway.

Congrats HC

[TNgqZhLR]

http://information.tjhsst.edu/gradparty/documents/2011/2011_rules_poster.pdf

That still leaves hookers