GREENSBORO, NC -- When did we start pretending that minor achievements deserve the same recognition as major accomplishments? Two examples from this past few days: The area's fifth grade "graduations," and the Greensboro Grasshoppers "winning" the "first half" pennant.
Graduation is for granting a diploma or degree and a baseball pennant is for the winner of a league's season. What's next? Kindergarten graduation and a fifth inning pennant?
Actually local public school kindergartens do have graduation ceremonies.
ReplyDeleteKindergartens do indeed have graduations, of a sort. I'm attending one on Wednesday, which my son's school is calling a Moving Up ceremony.
ReplyDeleteAs for the Grasshoppers' first-half pennant, it clinches them a spot in the playoffs at the end of the season. So it's not an empty accomplishment, as such things go.
I think Roch just felt crabby today. I'll be sure to stay off his lawn.