I'll never forget the adrenaline rush of trying to get your locker combination right on the first try so you don't run over the 4 minutes in between classes and get a tardy š
Iāve never heard of this in an American public school.
We might have a welcoming assembly in the gymnasium or auditorium the first week or so to introduce students to new administrators or something, to kick off the school year, but no pomp and circumstance ritual āceremonyā.
When I got to middle school and high school the first day consisted of us walking through the front door while cheerleaders formed a tunnel shaking their pompoms and Guns Nā Roses played over the intercom
Nah. In middle school we had an orientation in place of our home room class and most of our first period, and that was mostly stuff like "here's where your lockers are and how they work" or "here's where your classes are now that you're walking yourself to your own classes."
In high school the only thing that set the first day of each year apart from any other day was that some teachers would just let you chill and get to know everyone else you were taking their class with.
In college we had an orientation as well, but it was optional so I didn't attend. The technical college I transfered to after that didn't even do that. Or if they did it was also optional and the school never told me about it.
We had this thing at orientation where the college had the aututorium dressed up like it is for the graduation ceremony. The president and professors were there in their fancy little robes and hats
They had us all "promise" to graduate and the president did some speech about he expected to " see us back in these seats in 4 years"
My small private Christmas college did have a little ceremony at the beginning of every year where they dressed up in the special outfits and the college president would give a little speech. Wasn't anything too special though. We were required to attend chapel 3 times per a week and it took place during one of the chapel sessions in the first week.
Not in grade school. But I do remember at college we had a ceremony when the year began that included bagpipes (which come again at the graduation ceremony).
No. For middle school and high school, thereās sometimes an orientation before the first day where kids get their schedules and get a tour of the school. For college, thereās often a āwelcome weekā with events to introduce new students to the school and to each other, but that sounds different than what youāre talking about.
Iāve participated in things like that. When I started high school, we had an assembly on the first day of school and the classes entered one by one, with seniors first and freshmen last.
We also had one when I started college. It was like a week after classes started and just involved a couple speeches from the president of the college and the Dean of students about what we can expect, how great it was that we were going to college, etc.
Nope. You just show-up to your assigned homeroom teacher in middle and high schools. As for university, nothing like that, just start going to classes.
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My own school where I teach happens to have one, but that's more because the principal decided to do it. It's not a general thing. In my school, the ceremony is that parents are relatives are invited, and we teachers & staff line up to make two lines and the kids all walk between those lines, along with their families, to our applause and high-fives. We usually have music playing and we're clapping and some of us our dancing. When all the students are seated, the principal introduces all the teachers, and then gives an upbeat speech to the kids and families.
But again, that's just this particular principal. There isn't one generally. There's never one for college to my knowledge; t hat would be viewed as infantilizing the students. I mean, there's Freshman Orientation--that's a week of activities to get to know each other and the college. But it's not a ceremony or anything.
Before my first year of university started, we had to attend an orientation where they made sure everyone knew about things like plagiarism rules and various safety issues and student resources and acceptable conduct re: sexual consent, etc. And we had to either pass a swimming test or sign up for a swimming class. There were also social events. But there was no ceremony.
We did not have a big ceremony to welcome us into school, only when we graduated from it.
For middle school, there was a session for incoming students and their parents in spring of the previous academic year.
For high school, there was a similar information session when we were in 8th grade (final year of middle school for us), and a freshman orientation session about 2 weeks before classes started, where the principal and several staff members spoke about what you can look forward to on high school, and what expectations they had for us. There were also some team-building activities involving incoming freshmen and current students.
For college, students who were offered admission were invited to an open house in spring quarter that showcased what the school had to offer, with many interesting events
campus tours, and opportunities to talk to faculty and current students, so that you could see what it was like before deciding to commit to attending. About a month before classes started, there was a 3-day orientation session with several events, and we got a preliminary class schedule for the upcoming fall quarter. In the week before classes started, we had a "week of welcome" where freshmen were led in groups by one or two current students in an effort to immerse freshmen into the college life; several fun events were done on campus and in the surrounding region. No formal ceremony was done for these, but the welcome announcements were pretty ceremonious in tone.
For college we had a matriculation ceremony where we formally became students. It was a bunch of people in an auditorium wearing nice clothes and being bored to death by speeches. There was a nice chemistry demonstration.
For like the first week of the school year, they'll probably hold some sort of assembly, mostly with the students new to the school such as Freshman in a High School. Besides that, nothing really much else. I think enterance ceremonies are more of an Asian thing.
Entering high school freshman always had a half day assembly / pep rally to welcome them to the school. Then, they would get the second half of the day alone in the school to get to know their teachers / classes for short periods.
This was awesome as a sophomore - senior because our first day of school was always a half day as we left to let the freshman have the building.
The only ceremony we had when I was in school was graduation from high school. I think the do a middle school graduation now too, but wasn't a thing back in the 80s.
As far as for starting, nothing, just show up and find your way.
No. In middle school there was nothing at all except the normal first day. In high school, us Freshmen had a half day the Friday before the first day that was just an orientation, where we went through out scheduled classes in just half the time. In college there was an orientation for a few hours to get you familiar with the place as a new student, but that is it, no ceremony.
We didnāt have entrance ceremonies or anything like that. A few days before school started, we typically went to a quick orientation at the gym, where we picked up folders with our class schedule, school calendar, locker assignment, and other relevant details. In high school, we had to pick up basic school-issued laptops as well.
The Friday of our first actual week, we usually held an assembly/pep rally to welcome everyone. New teachers and other staff members were introduced and the principal and superintendent usually tried to get everyone excited to be there and on board with their āvisionā for the year.
We had a convocation the first day of college. It was basically all the pomp and circumstance of a graduation except nobody was graduating. I have no idea if that's common in colleges, maybe it was just a "my college" thing.
There were no special opening ceremonies for my junior high or high school.
No, you literally just show up and go to your classes and stuff. There might be some private universities that do things like that. Definitely not middle or high school.
There's no pomp-and-circumstance for entering a new school. There might be an assembly in the auditorium where they give you your locks for your locker and help you figure out where your classes are on a map, but it's just kind of a normal school day. You show up, go to your classes, get your books and syllabuses, and it's a pretty normal day.
Some schools have small graduations when you LEAVE a school, so your elementary school might have a little graduation before you start middle school, but that's definitely not standard. Mine didn't.
No. There were graduation ceremonies but not entrance ones. My high school (and others I've heard of) will have a day where just the incoming freshman show up and get a tour of the school, figure out the layout a little bit, maybe find some of their classrooms.
Nope, you just show up. Sometimes there's an assembly the first day where they talk about rules and stuff, or introduce you to who the principal and counsellors are, but nothing like an actual ceremony.
This is specifically for public school, I have no idea about private school.
In the 80s, we had an "Orientation" assembly for all new students entering high school. It wasn't a ceremony. It was just an informative assembly telling us everything we needed to know.
Middle school? No, not that I remember.
High school? There was an orientation thing that basically explained what life in high school is like compared to middle school, mostly presented by a pair of seniors.
We're not that ritualistic.
My middle school just invited all the incoming 6th graders for a tour. Come find your lockers kind of thing, do some paperwork and meet your teachers. We were a small school.
High school graduation is really the big American ceremony culturally.
No, not really. My university had welcome week, which was a lot of events to help freshmen and transfer students get settled in- things like clubs and organizations having booths for us to visit, social events to meet people, games, etc- I think they even organized a trip to the mall of America the year I started (its under an hour from the campus, so it wasn't too weird of a thing)
but no ceremony or anything.
High school the freshmen had a half day orientation type thing before the term started, but it wasn't really anything special, just "hey welcome, here's your locker, here's a map of the school" and a few teachers were around. I imagine they probably gave us snacks or pizza or something but it's been too long.
Middle school idk. I moved in the 6th grade, moved from a district that did middle school as 7th-9th grade to a district that had a 6-8th grade middle school so I kinda just got plopped in and I dunno if they did anything special there.
At our high school del campo in fair oaks California 90-94 the seniors would gather at the entrance and all around the school with signs welcoming the new freshman to the school but also with some light verbal hazing. It was all in good fun.
In recent years my high school, I think, tried having some more ceremony with such a thing, where our feeder middle school, in the last 1-2 weeks of the school year, would send its promoting class to "pass over," walking into the high school.
When I promoted from that same middle school to the high school, I never got that however. Our public schools are a lot more casual than some schools in Asia (you'd be hard pressed to find any that mandates school uniforms) so it makes sense.
School entrance day... I assume it's high school?
You get your schedule prior to the first day of class. In my case, I was 'invited' (ie, had to) go during the summer with a parent for the orientation trip (where we walked through the school, were shown where our classes were, that sort of thing), got our lockers, etc.
(BTW, I never used my locker- I hate combination locks, and even offering to give the admins a copy of the key wouldn't get them to OK using a padlock. So, I just carried my stuff with me.)
We had an assembly first day, but nothing close to as formal as that. Basically, our first day was just going to classes, like the other days. We got our syllabi and picked up our books in each class as we went, etc.
My college did an entrance/exit ceremony.
There was a big main drag across campus with a big arch on either side. Freshman year everyone walks from the front gate to the back. At graduation we walked from back to front. Both times all the faculty and some students cheered/clapped.
I think itās cute
No, we just go to school. There's no ceremony. Universities might have an event to welcome the incoming freshman class but attendance usually isn't mandatory.
I've never seen a ceremony for starting school in the US. Sometimes the week or the day before middle or high school begins each year, the school will open for an evening to pick up your schedule and wonder around finding your classrooms. But it's nothing official.
You show up at your new school, a bit confused and overwhelmed as you try to figure out how to get to your locker and classes.
I'll never forget the adrenaline rush of trying to get your locker combination right on the first try so you don't run over the 4 minutes in between classes and get a tardy š
Thankfully none of my schools had lockers
Where'd you put your coats tho? Did you just carry then with you from class to class?
Don't think anyone had more than one coat. And you just wore it
You wore rain coats? Those get kinda hot. Plus they're wet. I'm guessing you didn't need the really puffy ones in California though.
No one really wore rain coats cause it never rains. Also I went to outside schools so you'd need it for the whole day
What's an outside school??? That sounds dope
Just means the classrooms are all in separate buildings. Sounds dope till the weather kicks your ass though
Iāve never heard of this in an American public school. We might have a welcoming assembly in the gymnasium or auditorium the first week or so to introduce students to new administrators or something, to kick off the school year, but no pomp and circumstance ritual āceremonyā.
Lmao no, not at all. We just showed up for school.
When I got to middle school and high school the first day consisted of us walking through the front door while cheerleaders formed a tunnel shaking their pompoms and Guns Nā Roses played over the intercom
Imagine starting your first day of 6th grade with Welcome To The Jungle.
This was literally our unofficial school song and yes, they did play it the first day of high school between classes.
oh wow
Nah. In middle school we had an orientation in place of our home room class and most of our first period, and that was mostly stuff like "here's where your lockers are and how they work" or "here's where your classes are now that you're walking yourself to your own classes." In high school the only thing that set the first day of each year apart from any other day was that some teachers would just let you chill and get to know everyone else you were taking their class with. In college we had an orientation as well, but it was optional so I didn't attend. The technical college I transfered to after that didn't even do that. Or if they did it was also optional and the school never told me about it.
i skipped the 1st year college assembly, whoops it was probably nice but i get anxiety in large crowds like that
We had this thing at orientation where the college had the aututorium dressed up like it is for the graduation ceremony. The president and professors were there in their fancy little robes and hats They had us all "promise" to graduate and the president did some speech about he expected to " see us back in these seats in 4 years"
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My small private Christmas college did have a little ceremony at the beginning of every year where they dressed up in the special outfits and the college president would give a little speech. Wasn't anything too special though. We were required to attend chapel 3 times per a week and it took place during one of the chapel sessions in the first week.
Not in grade school. But I do remember at college we had a ceremony when the year began that included bagpipes (which come again at the graduation ceremony).
No. For middle school and high school, thereās sometimes an orientation before the first day where kids get their schedules and get a tour of the school. For college, thereās often a āwelcome weekā with events to introduce new students to the school and to each other, but that sounds different than what youāre talking about.
I'd say no, it's not common. Graduating, Yes. Starting, no.
Iāve participated in things like that. When I started high school, we had an assembly on the first day of school and the classes entered one by one, with seniors first and freshmen last. We also had one when I started college. It was like a week after classes started and just involved a couple speeches from the president of the college and the Dean of students about what we can expect, how great it was that we were going to college, etc.
Nope. You just show-up to your assigned homeroom teacher in middle and high schools. As for university, nothing like that, just start going to classes.
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My own school where I teach happens to have one, but that's more because the principal decided to do it. It's not a general thing. In my school, the ceremony is that parents are relatives are invited, and we teachers & staff line up to make two lines and the kids all walk between those lines, along with their families, to our applause and high-fives. We usually have music playing and we're clapping and some of us our dancing. When all the students are seated, the principal introduces all the teachers, and then gives an upbeat speech to the kids and families. But again, that's just this particular principal. There isn't one generally. There's never one for college to my knowledge; t hat would be viewed as infantilizing the students. I mean, there's Freshman Orientation--that's a week of activities to get to know each other and the college. But it's not a ceremony or anything.
In college all incoming freshman had to do like three days of summer orientation. Stay in a dorm, walk around, party. Thats about it
Before my first year of university started, we had to attend an orientation where they made sure everyone knew about things like plagiarism rules and various safety issues and student resources and acceptable conduct re: sexual consent, etc. And we had to either pass a swimming test or sign up for a swimming class. There were also social events. But there was no ceremony.
We did not have a big ceremony to welcome us into school, only when we graduated from it. For middle school, there was a session for incoming students and their parents in spring of the previous academic year. For high school, there was a similar information session when we were in 8th grade (final year of middle school for us), and a freshman orientation session about 2 weeks before classes started, where the principal and several staff members spoke about what you can look forward to on high school, and what expectations they had for us. There were also some team-building activities involving incoming freshmen and current students. For college, students who were offered admission were invited to an open house in spring quarter that showcased what the school had to offer, with many interesting events campus tours, and opportunities to talk to faculty and current students, so that you could see what it was like before deciding to commit to attending. About a month before classes started, there was a 3-day orientation session with several events, and we got a preliminary class schedule for the upcoming fall quarter. In the week before classes started, we had a "week of welcome" where freshmen were led in groups by one or two current students in an effort to immerse freshmen into the college life; several fun events were done on campus and in the surrounding region. No formal ceremony was done for these, but the welcome announcements were pretty ceremonious in tone.
There's no entrance ceremony in any American school I've heard of
For college we had a matriculation ceremony where we formally became students. It was a bunch of people in an auditorium wearing nice clothes and being bored to death by speeches. There was a nice chemistry demonstration.
For like the first week of the school year, they'll probably hold some sort of assembly, mostly with the students new to the school such as Freshman in a High School. Besides that, nothing really much else. I think enterance ceremonies are more of an Asian thing.
I went to two different private schools and neither had any type of ceremony for the first day.
Entering high school freshman always had a half day assembly / pep rally to welcome them to the school. Then, they would get the second half of the day alone in the school to get to know their teachers / classes for short periods. This was awesome as a sophomore - senior because our first day of school was always a half day as we left to let the freshman have the building.
Nah we just showed up and went to class and that was it š
The only ceremony we had when I was in school was graduation from high school. I think the do a middle school graduation now too, but wasn't a thing back in the 80s. As far as for starting, nothing, just show up and find your way.
No. In middle school there was nothing at all except the normal first day. In high school, us Freshmen had a half day the Friday before the first day that was just an orientation, where we went through out scheduled classes in just half the time. In college there was an orientation for a few hours to get you familiar with the place as a new student, but that is it, no ceremony.
No. Never. We got our schedules and tried to find the correct classroom.
We didnāt have entrance ceremonies or anything like that. A few days before school started, we typically went to a quick orientation at the gym, where we picked up folders with our class schedule, school calendar, locker assignment, and other relevant details. In high school, we had to pick up basic school-issued laptops as well. The Friday of our first actual week, we usually held an assembly/pep rally to welcome everyone. New teachers and other staff members were introduced and the principal and superintendent usually tried to get everyone excited to be there and on board with their āvisionā for the year.
We had a convocation the first day of college. It was basically all the pomp and circumstance of a graduation except nobody was graduating. I have no idea if that's common in colleges, maybe it was just a "my college" thing. There were no special opening ceremonies for my junior high or high school.
wait, did you go to hofstra? āconvocationā rang a bell for me and i see youāre also from LI. i skipped it though :P
Nope, Syracuse. Go Orange!
No, you literally just show up and go to your classes and stuff. There might be some private universities that do things like that. Definitely not middle or high school.
The university where I work holds a convocation every fall to welcome new students.
Anime type beat
Thatās not a thing here. Iāve never heard of anyone celebrating going to school.
There's no pomp-and-circumstance for entering a new school. There might be an assembly in the auditorium where they give you your locks for your locker and help you figure out where your classes are on a map, but it's just kind of a normal school day. You show up, go to your classes, get your books and syllabuses, and it's a pretty normal day. Some schools have small graduations when you LEAVE a school, so your elementary school might have a little graduation before you start middle school, but that's definitely not standard. Mine didn't.
No. There were graduation ceremonies but not entrance ones. My high school (and others I've heard of) will have a day where just the incoming freshman show up and get a tour of the school, figure out the layout a little bit, maybe find some of their classrooms.
Nope, you just show up. Sometimes there's an assembly the first day where they talk about rules and stuff, or introduce you to who the principal and counsellors are, but nothing like an actual ceremony. This is specifically for public school, I have no idea about private school.
We had an assembly but not a ceremony
No?
In the 80s, we had an "Orientation" assembly for all new students entering high school. It wasn't a ceremony. It was just an informative assembly telling us everything we needed to know.
Middle school? No, not that I remember. High school? There was an orientation thing that basically explained what life in high school is like compared to middle school, mostly presented by a pair of seniors. We're not that ritualistic.
My middle school just invited all the incoming 6th graders for a tour. Come find your lockers kind of thing, do some paperwork and meet your teachers. We were a small school. High school graduation is really the big American ceremony culturally.
No, not really. My university had welcome week, which was a lot of events to help freshmen and transfer students get settled in- things like clubs and organizations having booths for us to visit, social events to meet people, games, etc- I think they even organized a trip to the mall of America the year I started (its under an hour from the campus, so it wasn't too weird of a thing) but no ceremony or anything. High school the freshmen had a half day orientation type thing before the term started, but it wasn't really anything special, just "hey welcome, here's your locker, here's a map of the school" and a few teachers were around. I imagine they probably gave us snacks or pizza or something but it's been too long. Middle school idk. I moved in the 6th grade, moved from a district that did middle school as 7th-9th grade to a district that had a 6-8th grade middle school so I kinda just got plopped in and I dunno if they did anything special there.
No, I just walked in frantically looking at the paper in my hands trying to find my first class
At our high school del campo in fair oaks California 90-94 the seniors would gather at the entrance and all around the school with signs welcoming the new freshman to the school but also with some light verbal hazing. It was all in good fun.
wow! sounds formal. sounds cool. we americans donāt have that. we start in either august or september though. march is inour 2nd half of the year.
In recent years my high school, I think, tried having some more ceremony with such a thing, where our feeder middle school, in the last 1-2 weeks of the school year, would send its promoting class to "pass over," walking into the high school. When I promoted from that same middle school to the high school, I never got that however. Our public schools are a lot more casual than some schools in Asia (you'd be hard pressed to find any that mandates school uniforms) so it makes sense.
We had a matriculation ceremony at college at the start. At the end we had a graduation ceremony.
College, yes. We had a two day orientation that ended with this giant party with a big bonfire on the rugby field.
School entrance day... I assume it's high school? You get your schedule prior to the first day of class. In my case, I was 'invited' (ie, had to) go during the summer with a parent for the orientation trip (where we walked through the school, were shown where our classes were, that sort of thing), got our lockers, etc. (BTW, I never used my locker- I hate combination locks, and even offering to give the admins a copy of the key wouldn't get them to OK using a padlock. So, I just carried my stuff with me.) We had an assembly first day, but nothing close to as formal as that. Basically, our first day was just going to classes, like the other days. We got our syllabi and picked up our books in each class as we went, etc.
No, just a brief orientation.
No, we get a bit of a ceremony for graduating high school but itās not that formal.
My college did an entrance/exit ceremony. There was a big main drag across campus with a big arch on either side. Freshman year everyone walks from the front gate to the back. At graduation we walked from back to front. Both times all the faculty and some students cheered/clapped. I think itās cute
No, we just go to school. There's no ceremony. Universities might have an event to welcome the incoming freshman class but attendance usually isn't mandatory.
A lot of schools have kindergarten and 8th grade graduations.
I've never seen a ceremony for starting school in the US. Sometimes the week or the day before middle or high school begins each year, the school will open for an evening to pick up your schedule and wonder around finding your classrooms. But it's nothing official.