# Anyone have a kid being "promoted"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 17, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-a-kid-being-promoted/755043 "2016-05-17T23:00:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-a-kid-being-promoted/755043/21 "2016-05-18T21:29:10Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Graduating from anything but your senior year of high school is new. > > Now they have robes and mortarboards for kindergarteners. You graduate every year, and your senior year is less special. “Now”? It was referenced in Peanuts - when Linus was running for student council president, one of the things he pledged to get rid of was “kindergarten cap and gown graduations.” There was also a scene in a TV special where Sally is in a cap and gown, getting ready for one. (In print, after his last campaign speech mentioned The Great Pumpkin, the storyline ended; on TV, he ended up winning, but it ended with a closed-door meeting with the principal, who made it quite clear which one of them called the shots at the school.) ---
**Author:** ![slash2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@slash2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slash2k)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-a-kid-being-promoted/755043/22 "2016-05-18T22:31:03Z")
We had an 8th grade “promotion” ceremony (Texas, 1980s). “Graduation” was reserved for completing high school or college. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-a-kid-being-promoted/755043/23 "2016-05-18T22:46:22Z")
> [@Tzigone](#): > > We had robes and hats and diploma-handing-out ceremony for kindergarten graduation…in 1987. 87 is “recent” to me, given that I was graduated from high school in 1985. I was promoted from kindergarten to the first grade when the Vietnam war was still raging. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-a-kid-being-promoted/755043/24 "2016-05-19T00:53:02Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > 87 is “recent” to me, given that I was graduated from high school in 1985. I was promoted from kindergarten to the first grade when the Vietnam war was still raging. I’m a few years older than you , and I was graduated from elementary school (8th grade) in 1977 and my public school friends were graduated from junior high (9th grade) in 1978. And I know I attended a kindergarten graduation sometime before 1978 , so graduating from anything before your senior year of high school is not all that new. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-a-kid-being-promoted/755043/25 "2016-05-19T03:14:41Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > 87 is “recent” to me, given that I was graduated from high school in 1985. I was promoted from kindergarten to the first grade when the Vietnam war was still raging. Those were the days when a great many high school students, upon completion of 12th grade, got “promoted” to “Private”. (Getting promoted to “Private First Class” took several additional weeks.) ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-a-kid-being-promoted/755043/26 "2016-05-19T13:11:14Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > There was also a scene in a TV special where Sally is in a cap and gown, getting ready for one. “You’re in Love, Charlie Brown” from 1967 ([Peanuts 1960's Collection DVD Review](http://www.dvdizzy.com/peanuts-1960s.html) "Also, valedictorian Sally prepares for her cap-and-gown kindergarten graduation. ") [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-a-kid-being-promoted/755043.md?page=1)