# What should I do for this graduation?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-for-this-graduation/624824>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 11, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-for-this-graduation/624824 "2012-06-11T16:12:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-for-this-graduation/624824/1 "2012-06-11T16:12:54Z")

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I have some young men and women who volunteer for our organization. They come from Wildwood, a school for developmentally disabled children.

There is a graduation coming up, and I have been invited. I don’t know anyone well enough to go, but a lot of these kids have been wonderful in helping us this year. They helped us move, even. I’d like to do something for them, but I’m not really sure what. Flowers? A congrats card signed from the whole office? A fruit platter?

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**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-for-this-graduation/624824/2 "2012-06-11T16:43:18Z")

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Could you have a celebratory pizza party at your place (where they volunteer)?

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**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-for-this-graduation/624824/3 "2012-06-11T16:44:13Z")

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Just go. It will mean a lot to them.

(My advice as someone who has been to a couple of these now. :))

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**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-do-for-this-graduation/624824/4 "2012-06-11T17:47:48Z")

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Bring some kind of food. Everybody likes food.