Congratulations to your daughter! My son's school was similar when he finished last year (our school year is January to December - summery Christmases and all that, don't cha know).

The senior class' endless farewells would have been more in keeping if they'd been going out to colonise space or something, but, then again, in a world that seems to celebrate so much of the negative in teen culture, I figured that a positive rite of passage really can't be a bad thing, so jumped in with both feet.