After waging a short campaign of resistance, mom Linda Urquhart caved. I think it's unnecessary. No, I think it's ridiculous. But there's so much pressure on the parents. You don't want your child to be the one who didn't get what everybody else did.
Some graduates get their names printed on several banners throughout town.
Gwinnett County high schools even started selling yard signs themselves, seeing a good chance for fund-raising. Their efforts have paid off - several subdivision entrances are plastered with them. Asked where this trend came from, Wade Swormstedt, editor and publisher of Signs of the Times magazine in Cincinnati, said sign companies moved into strip malls, hung out signs announcing everything from new babies to first communions, and people snapped them up. Do not republish or frame without permission. Click here to contact us .