Not trying to take away from your sons' achievement WA, but I think HS graduations are bunk and I'll tell ya why.

Many years ago when my oldest daughter was a senior in HS, every student sat down with their counselors at the beginning of the year to make sure that they had all of the required courses/credit for graduation. My daughters counselor assured her that she already had them all fulfilled and that her senior year could be for whatever courses she wanted. Most of the courses she liked were already full, so she ended up with 4 study periods a day, which we all saw as a humongous waste of time.

3 weeks before the graduation ceremony, she got called into her counselors office and told that she would not be able to walk with her class in the ceremony. Why? Seems the counselor had neglected to note that my daughter lacked ONE QUARTER of a credit required for graduation. And that credit was for FUCKING GYM CLASS. They told her she would need to attend summer school to get it and would receive her diploma in the mail afterwards.

Her cap and gown had already been bought. The white shoes they required for all girls had been purchased. The invitations for her graduation had already gone out. The party supplies for the big family shindig were stacked in my kitchen. I told her FUCK THEM. As far as we were concerned, she HAD fulfilled all of her 'duties'.

She still had her graduation only she walked in her cap and gown down our stone pathway to the table we set up, on which laid the scrolled up diploma I had made her. Her brother played the graduation march on his guitar. She still had her party filled with family and friends. And that gym class she 'lacked' in order to prove that she had 'achieved' success went into the dustbin of bad jokes.