LPN school..NO graduation!!

[oglpn2012]

Hello everyone I am so upset..I am a LPN student and we are almost done only to find out we have NO graduation or pinning ceremony. Iam so devestated..I have my whole family awaiting the date and now what can I say.. I need suggestions please..the school said if we want we can put money together and have a celebration this is so wrong...what should I do???

[SinikRN101]

Our school did the whole thing. We had a pinning committee (which I was a part of) who planned the whole event. We paid class dues which funded each aspect of the ceremony including a single rose for each student, 20 invitations for each student (could order and pay for more), our personal pin, our personalized scroll (used the college printing classes for invitations and scroll). We sent personal invitations to the School Admin (who let us use their space) and paid for the rest with our class dues and fund raisers throughout the courses. Fund raisers included teachers who had auctions on certain days for items donated, class recycling, bake sales, holiday sales, and so on. You can always take charge with the help of a few teachers, but planning needs to start early.

[nursel56]

I would be upset, too. Your school should've mentioned that months earlier, so you and your classmates could get things organized if a majority of you wanted to have a graduation ceremony.

The majority of ours did, so we didn't have to face the issue, and nobody was obligated to attend or donate anything. Our instructors and the DON of the school attended.

[DogWmn]

Wow, I guess things were different back when dinosaurs walked the earth. At the half way point we had a "capping" ceremony and then at graduation we had the whole gown and cap thing along with getting our pin. Of course we were at a CC with an auditorium, so space wasn't an issue...of course the parental units along with aunts and uncles were all there as I was only the 2nd family member and first "girl" to graduate from college...they didnt' care t hat it was a CC...I still got a diploma.

Then it was on to the looooooong state board test pool exam that took up to 10 weeks to hear back from again, this was when dinos walked the earth and pre-computerized anything:rolleyes:.

Ohhh we were sooo proud of those caps I ended up hating that caught on everything and btw those are nylons not panty hose...ugh Face has been blurred to protect the inocent and anyone who might still be alive to figure out who I am.

[caliotter3]

My daughter's school dropped the ball. The class officers got together and did it all. All of it. If those few students had not made the effort, there would have been no nice ceremony. But then, they figured out early on that they weren't going to get any help from the school officials. It was a good thing they figured this out in enough time to do the planning. I suggest you get together with your classmates and do a quick go over. Start with the question of whether or not students want to even bother. Sorry this happened to you.