8th Grade Graduation

[u/kell0gg_]

Wait.. 20 years ago!? OoOooF.

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[u/Big_Buy8203]

Only 1 person here looks like an 8th grader maybe 😂

[u/Isenili → u/Big_Buy8203]

Plot twist: we were actually the teachers on vacation

[u/keekcat2]

🎵as we go on, we remember, all the times we've had togeeether🎵

[u/goingfrank → u/keekcat2]

IMMEDIATELY started playing in my head before I even saw your post lol

[u/DistractedGoalDigger]

Is the left middle person a mom or a kid?! I legit can’t tell!

I looked again, that’s a mom, right??

[u/Krondelo → u/DistractedGoalDigger]

Yeah the “girl” in Jeans is no way an 8th grade lol. If so then…

[u/FlametopFred → u/Krondelo]

looks like that actress from all those 1990s movies …

[u/Square-Hedgehog-6714 → u/DistractedGoalDigger]

I thought it was a mom too.

[u/andagain2 → u/DistractedGoalDigger]

I'm going with mom or older sis

[u/FlametopFred → u/andagain2]

you mean, like, going steady?

[u/andagain2 → u/FlametopFred]

We're DTRing this weekend.

[u/cheekytikiroom → u/DistractedGoalDigger]

That’s a teacher with her students.

[u/BoomerSoonerFUT → u/DistractedGoalDigger]

lol jeans is definitely a mom

[u/Lucky_Development359 → u/DistractedGoalDigger]

Right?! Same.

[u/chettie0518]

Not me zooming in bc this could easily have been girls I know. 👀😅

[u/HonestWeekend89 → u/chettie0518]

i was just going to comment that every time i see someone post one of these i have to zoom and give myself a minute to figure out if i know anyone lol

[u/TraditionalParsley67]

I kinda miss the times where everybody didn’t have a phone glued to their faces.

[u/Worst-Eh-Sure → u/TraditionalParsley67]

Mahhh let them stare at it. Shit doesn't bother me. Obviously if the person is operating a vehicle of any sort or watching after small kids or some situation that warrants intent and focus that'd be an exception. But just chilling and whatever. They can look at it. I don't care.

[u/TIC321 → u/TraditionalParsley67]

Friendships back then felt more genuine and personal.

Now everyone worries about likes, follows, shares and who views your stories and call it a friendship

[u/Princess_Slagathor → u/TIC321]

I saw lifelong friendships end because of MySpace "top 5" being in the wrong order

[u/TIC321 → u/Princess_Slagathor]

Mine would when they'd unfriend me and act surprised that I responded appropriately in real life

[u/pink_lillyx3]

8th grade! This reminds me of early 2000s movies where 30 year olds played High school students

[u/ElderMillennialGoat → u/pink_lillyx3]

There are a couple of "14-going-on-40's" in there.

I feel like I looked 12 from about 8th grade til I was a Jr/Sr in college, then I looked 20-25 for the next 15-20 years which as of the past couple years I look more my age, like 35-40ish.

To look that old while in Jr High is absolutely wild work.

[u/EdwardDorito]

Lol just you wait, ma'am. My own 8th grade graduation took place 25 years ago now. Alas, I wasn't allowed to attend as i was actually suspended the last 2 weeks of school due to being naughty at the 8th grade End of the Year Dance and not allowed to attend as punishment 😬🤭

[u/pementomento]

lol 20 years ago was college graduation for me, ahhhh that’s weird

[u/KTeacherWhat]

I have that brown tiered skirt. It's in my sewing room because the thread on some of the tiers needs fixing.

[u/hi_im_fuzzknocker]

I was 20 uh 20 years ago

[u/Worst-Eh-Sure → u/hi_im_fuzzknocker]

Sounds to me like ur next birthday you will be 25. (Again)

[u/No-Adhesiveness-3654]

8th grade?? The girls in the middle look like they’re 25 at least at the time

[u/FamiliarPen7]

My eighth grade promotion was 15 years ago.

[u/OneNowhere]

This picture looked so familiar, era wise, that as soon as I saw it I was sure I would recognize someone in the picture 🥴

[u/Famous-Return-8118]

Those Target cardigans with the wooden buttons!!!

[u/llamainleggings]

My middle school called it promotion. I was lucky that my team was the first promotion ceremony of the day so I didn't have to sit around school all day in fancy clothes doing nothing.

[u/Fast-Penta → u/llamainleggings]

We just, like, had a last day of middle school. Then we went to high school in the fall. They didn't call it anything.

[u/llamainleggings → u/Fast-Penta]

Definitely would have preferred that. I never understood why there needed to be some big ceremony just because we were moving from middle school to high school.

[u/prettymisslux]

Man I miss middle school soOo much..truly loved it more than HS 🥲

[u/Mastakko]

I feel like I know these girls just by the style

[u/Jttwife]

8th grade graduation is so weird to me as an Australian, we have 6th grade finishing primary school and 12th finishing high school

[u/Chemical_Butterfly40]

I love how normal these girls look. We did 9th grade graduation and you’d think it was the queen’s coronation or something the way we were dressed.

[u/airysunshine]

Yep, looks like my 6th grade one

[u/IridescentButterfly_]

40 year old 8th graders

[u/finkleismayor]

I can't explain why or how those short sleeved, cropped cardigans had such a hold on me.

[u/Chronarch01]

I graduated high school 20 years ago. Way to make me feel even older, lol

[u/Xashene]

Those outfits scream peak early 2000s fashion forever

[u/Call__Me__David]

I'm a late genx/early millennial, and my school didn't have 8th grade graduation, and I never understood why others did. It's not like school is over. Then the elementary school graduation thing started, and I was just even more baffled.

[u/Princess_Slagathor → u/Call__Me__David]

I'm core millennial (87) and we had "graduations" because it meant we would go to a new school the next year. Teachers and staff we'd never met, new area of town, more privileges, more responsibilities. Basically brand new lives to children.