Diploma and a movie

Graduation at a drive-in, all your stuff is back at college, & the job you thought was yours just ghosted you. (I talked with the co-founder of Grown and Flown.) Plus, 7 other things worth your time.

A Pennsylvania school district recently announced plans to hold an innovative graduation ceremony in this time of social distancing.

They’re doing it at a drive-in movie theater.

Instead of walking across the stage, graduates will line up in cars with their families. The valedictorian and salutatorian will pre-record their speeches. They’ll show an inspirational class video on the big screen.

Sign of the times, right? I learned about this from Lisa Heffernan, co-founder of Grown and Flown, a website and extremely active Facebook group (150,000+ members) for parents of kids aged high school and beyond.

Heffernan and her co-founder Mary Dell Harrington literally wrote the book on parenting at this age. So when an Understandably reader suggested exploring what it’s like to be in college or high school right now, Heffernan was the natural person for me to talk to.

I know some readers are squarely in this demographic, so I’ll be interested to hear what you think of our conversation. Here are t…