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I agree TAM. When I graduated from a small central Texas town back in 1973, my mother was dying in a Houston hospital. My family left me home alone for the ceremony. I respected students whose entire extended families showed up and celebrated their graduation. Some of those students had to fight hard to graduate so I do not begrudge their families cheering a little bit loudly.

My daughter graduated from the University of Missouri a couple of weeks ago. She walked for two different degrees on two different days and there was cheering for almost each and every student that crossed the stage.

Sensibility has prevailed.

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I know nothing about any of this. Every time I walked across the stage there was a collective gasp that I made it at all.

ShootDontTalk wrote:I know nothing about any of this. Every time I walked across the stage there was a collective gasp that I made it at all.

Maybe that's why my parents didn't come......they didn't know I was actually graduating....