Proms and Graduations

Now that it's time to graduate his older children, 14 and 16 years of age, Kevin Swanson asks whether graduations are an appropriate rite of passage.

Does a graduation mark a discrete end of some course of study? Or does it mean that you are now free from compulsory education? Or does it a basis for honor? Yet there does seem to be a proper rite of passage from childhood to adulthood. But would you call it a Graduation?

For many parents, it's time to rethink the last 150 years of traditional education that brought us things like proms, graduations, and condoms in the prom bag.