# What was your last day of classes like in middle/high school?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 13, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-last-day-of-classes-like-in-middle-high-school/581797 "2011-05-13T17:15:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-last-day-of-classes-like-in-middle-high-school/581797/21 "2011-05-16T15:02:36Z")

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Kind of like this:

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NJLmRizldc)

“Somebody put a torch to this permanent records, quickly now.”

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**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-last-day-of-classes-like-in-middle-high-school/581797/22 "2011-05-16T15:08:25Z")

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Turn books in. Take finals. Go home. In grade 12, come back the next evening for commencement ceremonies. We didn’t do parties. The school where I teach now handles things in a very similar way.

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**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-last-day-of-classes-like-in-middle-high-school/581797/23 "2011-05-16T15:11:44Z")

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> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> My palm flower was blinking red and black.

Are you saying that you didn’t graduate until you were 30?

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**Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-last-day-of-classes-like-in-middle-high-school/581797/24 "2011-05-16T15:42:35Z")

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Must not have been very memorable. I vaguely remember my graduation ceremony, a little bit of the graduation rehearsal, but next to nothing of the last day of school proper. I do remember that the finals schedule meant that everyone kind of trickled out on their own as they completed their last test and that teachers were strongly discouraging “hanging out” inside or outside school grounds. So, yeah, it was sort of odd, not at all like 99% of the rest of high school days.

Pretty sure Junior High had a normal schedule up through the last day and that the last day was mostly watching videos and stuff. Yeeha.

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-last-day-of-classes-like-in-middle-high-school/581797/25 "2011-05-16T19:33:33Z")

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> [@Don\_Draper](#):
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> Are you saying that you didn’t graduate until you were 30?

21

And I was keying on “last day.”

😛

For HS, I was 17

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