My Son Graduated from High School Today (yep gun related)...

[GRB]

...and the whole family was pretty proud of him for that accomplishment.

Later on, during our celebration at home, we gave him his gifts. He had a choice to make concerning his graduation gift from his mom and me. I put $200 cash in his graduation card, and I put a completed Legacy Life Member NRA nomination form in another envelope along with a check for $300 made out to my son. No matter what he got to keep the cash. The choice was would he go for the NRA legacy life membership, or would he opt for the check in the amount of $300 (the cost to me to buy him a legacy life membership). I told him he could not cash the check until next week (after next payday), and he asked for the week to think about it which was okay by me.

My wife was not too hot on the membership and asked what were the benefits of it. I printed up the NRA Membership Benefits webpage. My son read it to my wife. She seemed not too impressed, but then said a magazine subscription for the rest of his life seemed okay, and that the cost of $300 instead of the usual $1,000 seemed okay (she actually seemed impressed by that). Then my son read the last benefit listed on the page; the bit about how the NRA helps protect our right to keep and bear arms.

Once he read that last benefit, he said he wanted the membership. I asked if he was sure, and if he still did not want the week to think about it. He handed me back the $300 check I had made out to him. I'll use the money I was going to give him with that check to pay for the NRA Legacy Life Membership for him. His decision made me feel pretty proud of him for the second time today, he is a smart young man academically and indeed also in his actions.


All the best,
Glenn B

 

[.cheese.]

congrats. Nice gift.

I gotta ask though - isn't it a little late in summer for graduations? I thought pretty much all of them would be over by now.

I believe I graduated from high school in either late April or early May (I could be wrong). I know I graduated from college around early June or late April. One cousin just graduated from law school in early June too. Another cousin graduated from high school in late May. My brother just graduated from college June 15, and Stanford has some weird school calender that has trimesters if I remember correctly, so I thought that was fairly late too.

Is it typical elsewhere for graduations to be late June'ish?

Doesn't really matter, I'm just curious. It may be different because all of the schools myself and my cousins attended were private schools and I think they get to decide their own scheduling of when the year begins and ends and when graduation is.

Oh, and it's awesome that he chose the membership!

 

[GRB]

As far as I remember I always graduated in June - from grammar school, from high school, and from college (maybe that was late May).

All the best,
GB

 

[akodo]

hey Glenn, if today was the first day your kid ever new that the NRA is fighting for our 2nd amendment rights, either you aren't doing a very good job or he isn't nearly as smart as you think he is

just kidding, grats

 

[arcticap]

Is it typical elsewhere for graduations to be late June'ish?

In the North East, it is typical for colleges to get out in May and high schools to get out in June.

 

[GRB]

akodo,

Even if only kidding, you bring up a valid point about the NRA and joining it.

He knew about the NRA but never joined, and I never pushed him. I guess he figured that my membership covered him as does my membership in another type of organization in which I participate. I never pushed him to join because I do not see much point to it before someone turns 18 and then can vote. He sure did the right thing though in picking the membership as far as I was concerned though, especially because it seemed to hinge on tha last membership benefit mentioned above.

All the best,
GB

 

[Eleven Mike]

The NRA is a good cause, but he should have taken the cash, paid for a year or two of membership, and kept the rest to help with college, tech school, or whatever's coming up next. At his age, with only a diploma, three hundred dollars is a lot of money. He can get a life membership later, when he has some earning power.


But his idealism is still refreshing. Congratulations on raising him right.

 

[jmr40]

There is a lot of difference in when schoos start and finish. The system where I teach got out on May 24 this year. The teachers report back on July 24 and the first day of school here is Aug. 1.

 

[GRB]

Waiting for a membership at the regular cost of $1,000 would have been quite foolish in my view. He works, he saves money, and besides that he got another $1,200 as gifts. It seems to me he made not only the right idealistic move, but also the right one financially.

All the ebst,
GB