Graduation Ceremony at Birmingham High School

In the evening on Thursday a Graduation ceremony took place at the football stadium at BHS. About 630 seniors graduated from high school. It was an excellent event for both students and their teachers. The stadium was full of parents and friends watching their "sweethearts" receiving the diplomas. Everything was very well prepared and organized. I had the opportunity to volunteer there so I really saw it from a very close perspective. It started with the pledge of allegiance then the national anthem sung by a student then a school choir singing a beautiful song and at the end for teachers calling those 630 names and students picking up their diplomas.

Supervision of the stadium. Do you see the look? The gown is from The University of Ontario

Students are the only ones who wear the cap. After receiving the diploma they are supposed to move the tassel from the right side to the left.

The security really took care of everything, they didn't want any "incidents". Well, everything went very well until the moment when one of the students, while picking up the diploma, opened his gown and had only very tiny thong on, showing his naked butt to the audience. Everybody was shocked but I guess it spiced up the event a little bit :-) The security took him out of the stadium and the next day I learnt he was an A student and nobody expected it from him. Well.... also the way how to be remembered.