12.+Graduation+Tickets+Information

Dear Parents,

Graduation tickets have been assigned and are ready for delivery! Your son or daughter will be bringing them home on Thursday, May 28. We've done our utmost to accommodate everyone. If you would like to know the details about how the seats were distributed, see below. We realize that Graduation is a major milestone in a young person's life and it would be nice if everyone could have a front row, center seat at the ceremony. Perhaps at Hogwarts such things are possible, but at YHS the best we can do is try to be as fair and equitable as possible.

A seating diagram is attached. All seating is reserved. Click on the magnification icon and increase the size to about 300% for best viewing. The diagram is not to scale. We appreciate your cooperation with all of the details leading up to the big day.

Hope for great weather come June 7! In the case of inclement conditions the ceremony will be held in the YHS gym.

Rick and Claire 

How seating was determined:

1. We divided the available seating for Graduation by the number of families represented by the graduates. That number turned out to be five. Of course, there was a remainder that meant some extra seats were available. Two of the five tickets are considered "prime". This simply means we designated an area in close proximity to the stage that would be considered good seating and called these "prime seats". The other three tickets are located outside of this area.

2. We sent out a survey asking parents to let us know if they needed extra tickets (up to four), or, conversely, if they could let us know if they did not need all of the five allotted tickets. Between the remainder and the tickets that were returned, we had enough seats to accommodate all of the requests for extra seating.

3. The graduates were each given a random number and then ranked by that number from smallest to largest. Tickets were then assigned based on this random distribution.

4. There was no way we could put all members of every family together. We were able to put the two prime seats together. We also were able to put the three additional seats together. Likewise, we put the extra tickets together as well. So members of Family "X" who requested four additional seats will have two prime seats together, three non-prime together and the four additional seats together.

Seating for Graduation is at a premium and we truly wish we could accommodate requests for individual circumstances, but that simply is not possible.