{"id":2984,"date":"2004-05-29T08:06:16","date_gmt":"2004-05-29T08:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2004-05-29T08:06:16","modified_gmt":"2004-05-29T08:06:16","slug":"homeschool-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=2984","title":{"rendered":"HOMESCHOOL GRADUATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernillinoisan.com\/rednews\/2004\/05\/29\/build\/top\/TOP004.html\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> a nice article about a graduation ceremony.  <\/p>\n<p>My kids are a long way away from this, but it&#8217;s something to keep in mind.  What do y&#8217;all do (or plan to do)?<\/p>\n<p>We are &#8220;independent&#8221; homeschoolers (<i>i.e.<\/i>, we don&#8217;t belong to any kind of umbrella group).  I wonder if any of the umbrella groups allow independents to partcipate in theirs.  Or, if maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/dheaonline.org\">DHEA<\/a>, the statewide homeschool association, ought to sponsor something.  (Traci, that&#8217;s a hint.)<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aztrib.com\/index.php?sty=22321\">another<\/a> one.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I\u2019ve heard some home-school graduates do their own graduation ceremonies at home,&#8221; said 17-year-old Bonnie Teplik of Mesa. &#8220;We\u2019re basically doing it like the rest of the schools.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to home-school graduates to mark their accomplishment. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I was just handed a GED, saying, \u2018OK, you graduated,\u2019 I don\u2019t think it would be quite as exciting as getting to walk down the aisle with a whole bunch of other people who\u2019ve been through what you have,&#8221; Teplik said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a nice article about a graduation ceremony. My kids are a long way away from this, but it&#8217;s something to keep in mind. What do y&#8217;all do (or plan to do)? We are &#8220;independent&#8221; homeschoolers (i.e., we don&#8217;t belong to any kind of umbrella group). I wonder if any of the umbrella groups allow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}