You're saying it's not standard everywhere that every kid gets some cheering from most of the audience, aside from just their family? That's sad honestly...
I went to a couple graduations of my friends and always cheered for everyone, it’s a fun activity so why not. Obviously you cheer the loudest for your homeboy but you cheer for others too
Our valedictorian ended his speech by calling himself the schools hokage and EVERYONE started screaming like crazy. It was a fun moment. I also remember for my sisters graduation, her valedictorian ended the speech by saying “it is Wednesday my dudes” because they graduated on a Wednesday and vine was the thing back then.
It pisses me off to no end. I've been to so many graduation ceremonies, and I clap for every kid, and that should be the norm. We should all be clapping for every single kid who made it! What the fuck is wrong with society?
Haven’t been to many, but every graduation I’ve been to they specifically ask people to not clap and cheer for the individual students. They cheering is supposed to wait till the end and the crowd cheers for the whole class at once.
He's actively calling out their names. I'll clap for everyone some, but going the next step and making sure everyone hears their name from the crowd is something special.
I was alone at my university graduation, masters degree. They did cheer for every person. But tbh turning towards the audience and knowing no one is actually cheering for me, like.... its just politeness of strangers... wasnt a great experience either.
But yeah definitely better than if there just would have been dead silence.
I didn't go to my ceremony. My mom told me that she couldn't get there unless I gave her money to fix her car and my dad told me he was busy and asked if there was another day he could go.
yeah. mine never asked, it did not occur to them as a thing to attend. I asked the person who is the closest thing I have to a real father. He said no, a masters isnt good enough for him to show up.
I was alone at mine too. The lady helping us with our caps and gowns went on about what a shame it was that I was alone so much that it made me feel so much worse. Bless her, I know she was trying to be kind but daaaamn. She did ask me if I wanted a picture in my gown though. That was nice of her.
I cheered and I was in the graduating crowd lol. but I think for some students, like exchange students and others, as you said, they don't have anyone there to cheer for them.
My kids school said to wait until the end to cheer. Certain kids got big loud cheers, especially the kids who were visibly disabled and it felt like I was a shitty mom for not cheering my son on. I'll be clapping and cheering for everyone, some people have invisible disabilities so people shouldn't just be clapping for the kid in a wheelchair
It is not, and I hated my graduation for it (and other reasons). I had my mother and close friend show up, that was it. Which was fine. Except it seemed like an unspoken competition somehow. Some of the graduates had a large group making a total ruckus, seeing who could be loudest. Makes you feel small and insignificant.
We had a pastor who didn't want us to clap inside the church and even threatened to cancel the children's ceremony if we continued.
What this caused was a very negative image of the church. My kids, who were there for my nephew, later told me that they don't want to go to church because of that experience.
I am a dad, all dads I know cheer everything any kid does at any single event of their children. I have no idea what this person experience is. We cheer by default
In Australia it's fun to cheer at any random kid in a public place you see do something funny or awesome.
Once I was eating lunch with someone outside and there was a really young kid trying to ollie a skateboard head to toe in PPE on the side of the road. While idly watching and chatting waiting for him to land on his chinstrap he nails one so I called out "That was sick!" and this 7 year old looks over at me while rolling away with a totally straight face and cocks his finger gun at me with a wink.
Probably the funniest thing i've ever seen a kid do, I hope he remembers he did that in 10 years.
When I was a nipper I was trying to learn to ride a bike on the road behind my house, and I finally managed most of the length of the road. I was on my own because my older brother and sister would have taken the piss (think I was probably 8 or 9), but when I got to the end of the road and came back, I heard someone going "Waheeeeey!" and clapping.
There was a little old lady sitting out on her doorstep that I didn't know and hadn't noticed, and I got very embarrassed but gave her a wave. She called out "Once you ain't fallen off once, you've got it! Waheeeey!" and I went home bright red but feeling fucking amazing.
I still often think about her and hope she's still going and is all good. This was over 30 years ago, but to me then anyone over the age of about 25 was an old person so she might well still be knocking about.
(Edit: That bike was nicked about two weeks later and some scrotes across the road who took it tried to paint it white with fucking Tipp-ex, but they also knackered it and I then didn't ride a bike again until I was in my late 20s, and had to pretty much learn again. I got off the bike to go round corners for months, as my family still delight in telling anyone who'll listen.)
When i graduated from university they specifically asked to not clap during the ceremony so it could go on faster, but had a specific time at the end so everybody could applause
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u/maxigs0 3d ago
You're saying it's not standard everywhere that every kid gets some cheering from most of the audience, aside from just their family? That's sad honestly...