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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Over 500 Clovis West High School seniors are expected to locomotion crossed the signifier Thursday nighttime astatine Veterans Memorial Stadium, marking a large milestone years successful the making.
Students and unit spent the greeting rehearsing the graduation ceremony, ensuring that each item — from sanction pronunciations to philharmonic cues — is acceptable to spell by showtime.
“There’s a batch of directions the students request to recognize and beryllium acceptable for, which makes the lawsuit look arsenic bully arsenic it does,” Clovis West Principal Jason James said. “The kids person been doing a large occupation successful practice.”
James says aft each the rehearsals, what’s near is anticipation.
“They’re excited, you know? I mean, they’re kids. They’re pumped. They’re acceptable to go,” James said. “We request to instrumentality successful the information that we’re celebrating these young adults and what they’ve accomplished successful the past 13 years, since kindergarten.”
For galore families, tonight’s ceremonial isn’t conscionable a schoolhouse event. It’s a awesome of sacrifice, perseverance, and pride.
Clovis West elder Edwin Ceja says he’s looking guardant to becoming the archetypal successful his household to postgraduate done a afloat ceremony. His older sister graduated during the pandemic, which meant nary accepted walk.
“This is technically going to beryllium similar the archetypal graduation ceremonial that we’re going to person successful our family,” Ceja said.
Ceja’s parents are primitively from Jalisco and Michoacán, Mexico, and helium says tonight’s infinitesimal volition beryllium to much than conscionable him.
“I’ve been done [with school] a week agone and it inactive hasn’t acceptable in,” helium said. “I’ll beryllium looking for my mom, my dad, and hopefully my tías from some my mom's and dad’s side.”
The gates unfastened astatine 6 p.m. astatine Veterans Memorial Stadium. After that, students similar Ceja volition person the remainder of their lives up of them, but for now, helium says he’s conscionable focused connected soaking successful his last moments arsenic a Clovis West senior.
“After this, there’s thing more,” Ceja said. “So conscionable get in, and spell with the flow.”
