Symbolic or...

 

    So what is the significance of graduates tossing their caps into the air? Could it be as simple as a declaration of freedom? A demonstrated sigh of relief having finished school, or is it something deeper?

    Could it be rebellious students protesting gravity? After all, many students blame gravity for keeping their grades down. I know for a fact that a certain percentage of the student body sights gravity as the reason their basketball team finished so poorly, and for the strange disappearance of their school mascot, Helium Boy.

    I'm almost sure gravity is behind the defiant act of cap tossing, and the day their caps no longer come floating back down will be the day they have secured their place in history.