Graduation
At on of our children's high school, Service Academy reps come to the actual graduation and talk a bit about the student and announce that they will be attending the academy. VERY neat. The audiance applauds to a significant degree!
At our other child's school, the night before graduation there is a small gathering for faculty, staff, the selected students and their parents...for SA reps to come and make the announcement. They get several students attending SAs each year and so it is often 4-7 students with appointments. Much more intimate than the first.
Whatever the process, I would think it would be great to have some type of special recognition. The process they go through to get to a SA and what will be expected of them there and afterwards is very different from going to college. In my view, they deserve a nice little boost at high school graduation time.
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