They forgot to say myc child's name at graduation
A throwaway to remain anonymous. My son graduated from preschool and they had a ceremony. One by one , kids were being called up to receive their diplomas and take a picture with their teacher. Everyone, except my boy. When the teacher went to make closing remarks, I pointed to my son and they stumbled and fumbled over their words to eek out his name. But there was no diploma for him. We took his picture anyway. The ceremony conclucluded and at first they thought they accidently gave another child my son's diploma. So they checked them all. Not there. They then thought, maybe one child got two by mistake. Not dice. So they went to search the classroom. And it wasn't there. I KNOW they scrambled to print one out for him. Because it took at least 15 minutes to "find" it and the school is tiny.
Understandably, we were very upset. My son noticed he wasn't called. But it was worse than that. They said little speeches for each child highlighting their personalities. And when they finally called my son's name out, they said very generic things about him, some of it unlike him completely. It bothered me the most because he is autistic and it took us a very long time and alot of work to get to where he is. He was non-verbal, in therapies for years, alot of evaluations and efforts to see progress. And it is major for us that he was able to graduate preschool with neurotypical children on time. I got so upset I had to leave. I feel like they forgot my child, and now question were they ever paying attention to him? Was he just a face? The teacher did apologize, but it was little consolation. He was robbed of a very important milestone.