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25 Valedictorians
- Kiddo
- Jul 4, 2023
- 2 min read
Red caps and gowns dot the football field. 25 Valedictorians are called to the stage with their 4.12 GPA’s and their tiger moms panting in the bleachers.
Next come the award cords - “If you logged 5,000 Community service hours” the principal shouts into the megaphone “please stand” BOOM - you get a purple cord, “2,900AP classes” BAM, here’s a red cord! Endless Mock trials and UN Club debates gets you silver and gold respectively…but tiger helicopter moms never cut the cord – As soon as the last graduate’s name is called, they pounce onto the field swiping others out of their way for their photo opps. They just can’t click fast enough so they can be first to post on facebook following the family trip to Hawaii and what they made for dinner last night.
I think there should be other cords - here’s an orange cord - you made it through a global pandemic and still speak to your family – Yeah…a magenta cord for how you braved all your tedious classes on zoom and tedious teachers in person - Oooh – a purple cord for taking crap from other kids for being too smart or being too stupid, for having a small house or living in a mansion, for losing a dad or gaining a new one, for loving the theater, for changing your gender, for wearing the wrong clothes, for having sex or not having sex, for driving a Beemer or driving a beater, for being too fat or too thin. Here is your diploma for what you had to summon within yourself in order to move forward with your best self. Now throw your cap in the air and Carpe Diem!
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