Leaving school for me was a simple affair. Here's me after my first day:

After the initial disappointment of learning this was only the first day, and not the end of school I went on to spend a further 11 years at school. Leaving was a simple affair, no ceremony or fanfare.

Contrast this to the US High School system. The picture above shows High School graduation. Using the Houston Texans' Stadium (capacity 71,500) all the High Schools in the district descend one Saturday in June to put approximately 4,000 graduates through the graduation sausage machine. Each school gets approximately 90 minutes to process their students so there's no waiting around - trip on the way up the stairs to the stage and you get trampled.

Now you'd think the song of choice for graduation day would be School's Out by Alice Cooper, but this is 2015 and he's so 1972. So instead we have Kanye West: