Kindergarten graduation. WHY??

I hate Kindergarten graduation. Whoever thought of this idea was an idiot. What 5 or 6-year-old kid needs to wear a cap and gown and receive a diploma for attending a year of school? None! It's a weird concept to me. We didn't do that in the school I went to, so it's not like it's some tradition as far as I'm concerned. It's just some weird thing that people do for some crazy reason I don't get.

I understand having some type of party, or award ceremony, or other end of the year celebration. Yes, the first year of school is a big deal. It's worth celebrating. A graduation ceremony, though? What idiot thought that up?

This is why I hate it. A million times a day, Erin sees graduation-related stuff, and asks for it when she graduates from first grade. She thinks she's having another graduation ceremony in a matter of weeks when the school year ends, no matter how many times we tell her that the next time she's graduating from anything, it'll be high school. She simply doesn't get it. She honestly thinks that she's going to walk across a stage in a cap and gown at the end of every school year, and graduate from whatever grade she just finished. We've explained this to her a million times, but she doesn't get it. She graduated from Kindergarten, after all! Urkle graduated from Kindergarten yesterday. Daddy graduates from college in a few weeks. Why wouldn't she graduate from first grade when her school lets out? She does not get it no matter how many times we try to explain it to her.

I think accomplishments should be put in perspective, even for kids. Like I said, an award ceremony, a party, some type of end of the year celebration to commemorate the accomplishment of finishing up a year of school, would be a great idea. Give each kid a certificate of achievement for whatever they did best that year, eat some cupcakes, and tell them they are going to do great next year. Then call it a day. A full pomp and circumstance, cap and gown, graduation ceremony is NOT called for at that age, and sets the bar unrealistically. You don't have a graduation ceremony for Kindergarten. You have a graduation ceremony for high school and college. You have cupcakes and paper awards for Kindergarten.