A Creative Graduation Ceremony

Having a creative ceremony, no matter in junior high schools, senior high schools, or universities, seems to be a trend in these years. However, recently our ministry of education enacted the regulation of graduation ceremony, which provides standards on planning graduation ceremony, warning that students should not “overdo”. Some scholars approve of this regulation, while some others think our ministry of education is over-conservative.

I don't think it's improper to hold a creative graduation ceremony. Also, I agree with what Chu Hsueh-heng(朱學恆) and Yang Huei-ju(楊蕙如) said in the news; the policy should not be feudal. If the teachers and we students all enjoy in the ceremony, then the standard and restriction which the ministry of education announced will be superfluous. Let me take my high school graduation ceremony as example again. After our short plays were all done, it was teachers' turn to stand on the stage. All the teachers (including the school directors, drillmasters and even our school principal) cooperated to perform the adapted "Monga". And the male teachers composed a band called "May Flower Local Band". Students and teachers cheerfully sang and danced together. We all laughed out loud, screamed excitedly and enjoyed the show!

Also, I don't think having a creative graduation ceremony is disrespectful to teachers. Students openly laughed out when teachers were performing on the stage, but indeed we were not "laughed at" them. Besides, teachers played with us out of their free will, which means they wanted us to be happy. Both students and teachers want to give each other an unforgettable and joyful graduation memory, so why does the ministry of education interfere? As long as we don't get too over, it's our right to choose a crazy and happy graduation instead of a solemn and tearful one.

As far as I am concerned, my high school graduation ceremony could be counted as a creative and funny one. Each class was asked to perform a playlet that could show the features of the class or school. Most of the playlets were vivid and humorous. We even imitated and exaggerated the trademark poses and tag lines of teachers, and the applause of audience (juniors, parents and teachers themselves) was passionate. It was a meaningful short play to let the whole class recall all the precious memories of the three years together.

And I think these graduation short plays were not only for fun but also for learning. Since the ministry of education has advocated multi-learning policy for many years, what we did in the graduation ceremony was to put the policy into practice. For us, it is the last activity we held in school, so of course we spent a lot of time on it; we would like to set a good goal for our juniors. In addition, the whole process was about teamwork, so we could learn how to lead or to work in coordination. In my opinion, a creative ceremony is "Learning through playing".




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