All You Need to Know About Graduation

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

1.      Please remember that you must meet all graduation requirements to participate in graduation exercises.

2.      All fees for lost or damaged textbooks, media materials, parking fees, classroom instructional equipment, uniforms, or anything else owed to the school, must be cleared before the first rehearsal on Wednesday.  Payments must be made in cash only.  Otherwise, you will not be allowed to participate in graduation ceremonies.  Address questions to Ms. LaBroad.

3.      On final exam days and practice days, seniors may be dismissed early. Please leave the campus after the activity is completed and do not visit other campuses.  Underclassmen will be reviewing and taking exams.

4.      Fill out a “Request for Final Transcript” form in the Guidance Office as soon possible if you are planning to attend college this summer or fall (remember that there is a $2.00 charge).  You will not be officially admitted until the college receives the final transcript.

5.      The organizations’ sponsors will give honor stoles for honor societies/clubs to students.  Cords for honor graduates (students with a 3.5 or above GPA-not rounded off) and service cords will be given to students at practice on Thursday or Friday

Please do not do anything to jeopardize your participation in the graduation activities.  Commencement is a privilege.

GRADUATION PRACTICE INFORMATION

All practices are mandatory; school dress code is in effect

6.      Seniors must be present and on time for all practices.  Seniors who miss a practice may not be eligible to participate in the graduation ceremony.

7.      Graduation practices are school activities; therefore, all school rules and regulations, including dress code policies, will be enforced.

8.      Take your graduation gown out of the package prior to graduation and hang it up so wrinkles will fall out.  Use a cool iron to press, if necessary.

9.      Each graduate will receive four (4) tickets.  Tickets will be disbursed at the final practice.  All guests attending graduation, including babies and small children, will need a ticket.  

GRADUATION DAY

10.  Arrive at the graduation site by 1 p.m.  Parking is available on the Kennesaw State University campus in the East Parking Deck (#9 on the campus map, the East Parking Lot (across Frey Road from the East Parking Deck, and other lots as noted on the map. 

11. Tassels should be worn on the left side of the cap.  Caps should be worn flat on top of the head, not on the back, with the shorter point just above the eyebrows. 

12. Dress for graduates will be as follows.  Gentlemen:  black pants, black shoes and black socks, white shirt, and dark tie.  Ladies:  solid colored dark dress  (length no longer than the gown; collars should not show) or black dress slacks, simple small jewelry  (no necklaces), and black dress shoes  (no white hosiery, please).

13. Behavior at the ceremony and practices must be exemplary.  Throwing caps in the convocation center is inappropriate and dangerous and will not be permitted.  Please understand that disruption and misconduct in any form will not be tolerated.  Balloons, posters and camera tripods are not permitted in the Convocation Center.  Any senior who causes a disturbance or in any way conducts himself inappropriately during the ceremony will be removed and will not receive his diploma on the day of graduation.

14. A video company will be filming the graduation ceremony, and Lifetouch will have photographs for purchase as each graduate receives his/her diploma.  Parents may not be in the aisles or at the front to film or take photographs.

15. See Mr. Hosey @ extension 320  or Ashley.Hosey@cobbk12.org for all questions and arrangements for handicapped guests.  Handicapped guests and one assistant will be permitted in at 1:30 p.m.

16. Following the ceremony, family and friends may meet the graduates at the Campus Green directly after graduation.  Upon exiting the Convocation Center through the Atrium, bear to the left to get to the Campus Green. 

17. Students will return to the original Kennesaw State Gymnasium immediately following the graduation ceremony to receive their diplomas from their homeroom teachers.