The high school graduation ceremony is very special in the United States

Early summer in June is a season for United States high school to hold a graduation ceremony. According to forecasting from United States National Education Statistics Center, a total of more than 3 million people graduate in high school grade 12 in the United States every year.

In 1821, the first public high school was founded in Boston, and nearly a history of 200 years. It imitated the Royal high school in Edinburgh which provided free compulsory education to young people of the United States.

In the United States, high school curriculum focuses on preparation for further education or employment. Besides that, the more important significance of high school is civic education which makes the juvenile become responsible adults in future. Sometimes, the high school graduation rate is typically close to 75% in the United States. That is to say, one will leave off his study among four students. Of course, the low high school graduation rate is regarded as crisis in the USA education by the government.

Because United States University is easy to enter and difficult to graduate, there are no students would like to study in senior school again to get into college. In fact, college admission is ended at graduation time. The students who are ready for university will leave their home in autumn. And that others students who select not to go to college start to look for jobs or join in army. High school graduation is watershed in their lives. They will go their own way whether education or employment. So high school graduation ceremony gets special attention and is also meaningful.

No wonder the United States high school students and their families make the high school graduation ceremony as a big deal. There is prom one month before the graduation. What is unique about prom is that to test male and female students’ social skills and popularity. In the prom, the girls need thick makeup while the boys dress neatly, and the prom can be said to be the puberty rite for United States boys and girls.

At that time, the female students will spend a lot of money to dress up and only makeup fee is up to $ 800. Formal dresses, rings, cake, gifts and graduation pictures are very essential. On that day, many students drive the rented limo to the prom scene, which make the cost rise perpendicularly. Hear of that one people in the United States spent 5000 dollars for her daughter’s high school graduation. The economy of scale for the whole prom was about 4 billion dollars.

In a word, because the prom makes more sense to the high school students as well as their families who care of them, it goes without saying that the parents in the United States are doting on their children. Therefore the consumption of high school graduation can bring vitality to the depressed United States economy.