b'GRADUATIONGRADUATION NOT WHAT IT USED TO BEBy Mike HagerHow this historicIFirst Nation communities in Ontario want to discuss procrastination. Just kidding, I will get to thatand Quebec.rite of passagelater. Instead, I would like to look at a few different aspects ofTo start, it is not all doom and has changedgraduation and how this rite ofgloom, folks, although upon first passage has a different level ofglance it might look somewhat in meaning formagnitude for many of the Firstdiscouraging. According to data Nations, Mtis and Inuit (FNMI)from a 2018 report by Indigenous Indigenousstudents on Turtle Island. I willServices Canada, fewer than delve into some of the variablesfour out of 10 youth on-reserve students in Canada graduate high school with their that seem to hold FNMI students back from graduating high schoolGrade 12 diploma in hand on time, in significant numbers and howtypically around the age of 17 or levels of success are viewed in18. In comparison, nine out of 10 some Indigenous communities. Inon-Indigenous students complete will also share some perspectives ofhigh school when most of Canadian my time teaching in predominatelysociety has agreed they should. 30indspiration2022'