On June 18th my son graduated from 8th
grade. The last few weeks were busy with
his classmates going to Great America, their dinner dance on June 17th
and then graduation. Their graduation
was held at the local Junior college theater.
The school gave us 6 graduation tickets each. The boy’s grandma and our neighbor and her
son went to the graduation. The rest of
the family had to work that day.
The ceremony was lovely and touching. The graduates filed in in pairs of twos and
threes. They sat down on the stage. There were several classmates who gave
speeches. One of the girls whose speech
they used mentioned every one of her classmates with a few words about
them. It brought tears to my eyes. The speeches were very good. They had a wonderful slide show of all the
graduates with baby pictures, doing something they loved and a current picture. After the slide show they handed out the diplomas. The boy was in the front row so he got his diploma
first. Afterwards, we all filed out of
the theater and took pictures with the graduates. A couple of his friends gave him candy
leis.
Off to high school next year. I almost can’t believe it. It wasn’t that long ago that my little boy was
starting kindergarten. Now he and all of
his classmates are so grown up! A lot of them he went to school with since
kindergarten. Now they are all going off
to different schools. Most of them are
going to the local high school where they’ll be about a small part of the
incoming freshman class, but a lot are going to other schools inside and outside
of our district. It was a bittersweet day; leaving our small K-8th school with
its close knit community of students, parents and staff that we’ve known so
well and long.
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