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We have done favors for the daughter "because" of her parents. We don't actually like her.
So is this the real issue, that you don't like your friends' daughter? Maybe she doesn't realize you dislike her, and considers you good friends of her parents. Seems like someone I would consider sharing good news with, especially since you have shared holidays together.
I have never heard of a "graduation card", is this a common thing in the US? Damn, I feel I missed out there when I graduated a couple of years ago
Joking aside - you don't really know your friend's grandson well... I would just send a "congratulations card" back, with a little personal message. If you really feel that you must give something, $25 is fine. I know I would have enjoyed a gift card, no matter the value!
A graduation card is simply a congratulations card that is specific to the event.
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I think it's bizarre to throw away money to someone you do not know just to 'save face'.
And $25 is not a small sum of money. There are so many better things to spend $25 on.
As an aside, I do not see how high school graduation is particularly important. Anyone with an average IQ and even lower than average can graduate from high school. It's not an achievement.
The law specifies that young people of a certain age must attend school. (they can drop out legally at a certain age) Graduation is considered a 'rite of passage' and is way overdone. And for parents, graduation from high school often means that their child will be going out into the world and/or perhaps attending college, thereby no longer living full-time in the parents' home.
It's been tradition, but I don't really think it's particularly an important tradition nor one particularly worth keeping - especially the seeking of money from strangers or distant acquaintances or the most casual of acquaintances by the graduating young people and their parents.
Just because you receive a graduation announcement in the mail from someone by no means that you need to send money.
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As an aside, I do not see how high school graduation is particularly important. Anyone with an average IQ and even lower than average can graduate from high school. It's not an achievement.
The law specifies that young people of a certain age must attend school. (they can drop out legally at a certain age) Graduation is considered a 'rite of passage' and is way overdone. And for parents, graduation from high school often means that their child will be going out into the world and/or perhaps attending college, thereby no longer living full-time in the parents' home.
It's been tradition, but I don't really think it's particularly an important tradition nor one particularly worth keeping - especially the seeking money from strangers or distant acquaintances or the most casual of acquaintances part by the graduating young people and their parents.
While I agree that some people make way too big of a deal about their child graduating high school, the OP is talking about a college graduation.
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