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High School To-Do List

When you're neck-deep in college planning, it's easy to forget that if they don't get out of high school all that planning will be a moot point. With only a few weeks left of high school, there's still a ton of stuff to do.
  1. Check the status of how the Senior Project is coming along, including the purchase of necessary binders and report covers, taking and printing necessary photos, and then coordinating the transportation to the evening presentation ceremony
  2. Remind the child every other day about when and where to pick up the cap and gown, because you know he will forget
  3. Iron said gown in time for the class photo session, but accept that you'll have to then iron it again because you know after the photo session the gown will be wound up into a ball and thrown into his backpack
  4. Coordinate attendance at the Senior Awards Ceremony that he doesn't want to go to because he knows "he won't get anything"
  5. Address and mail graduation announcements, even to the relatives you don't like (they may send him money, you never know)
  6. Coordinate sleeping arrangements for out-of-town guests
  7. Take the kid shopping and force him to get dress clothes and shoes that fit for the ceremony, despite the rolling of the eyes
  8. Plan meals and activities for out-of-town guests (a visit to the local Cracker Barrel should suffice)
  9. Clean the house
  10. Plan a graduation party
  11. Reject your idea of serving Ramen and pb & j sandwiches to party attendees
  12. Coordinate transportation to and from ceremony for everybody
  13. Bring lots of tissues because you just know you will cry
  14. Submit the final official high school transcript to the university
As you can see, there is a lot to do and no time to do it. I bet you didn't realize that you would need to take a leave of absence in order to get your kid out of high school and into college, nor did you realize that even if you had started a college fund before he/she was born that there wouldn't be enough money to pay for it all.
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