Senior Success Stories: Wife, mother of 4 earns high school diploma from Yosemite Adult School

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The countdown to graduation is connected astatine Yosemite Adult School.

Maria Cachu has been waiting for this infinitesimal for a agelong time.

"It's something. I can't judge it," Maria said.

The 38-year-old parent and woman grew up successful Mexico and was lone successful schoolhouse until 6th grade.

Then astatine 17, her household moved to Fresno and Maria enrolled astatine Fresno High.

But soon after, her dada got into a car mishap and needed care.

"I had to work. I had to assistance my dad," Maria said.

She dropped retired of schoolhouse and started moving full-time.

She met her hubby astatine 19 and got joined astatine 21 earlier starting her ain family.

She was a stay-at-home ma raising her 4 children and supporting them successful each of their activities, from shot to shot to cheer.

"We are engaged each the time, but I bask doing that with them," Maria said.

When her youngest girl started kindergarten, her hubby encouraged her to instrumentality the citizenship test. After passing, she was motivated to bash more.

"I said I request to bash thing else. I request to amended myself. Do thing amended for me, for my life," Maria said.

She started moving part-time, and yet full-time, astatine Bass Lake Unified School District.

She started learning English arsenic a 2nd connection astatine Yosemite Adult School. She walked to people due to the fact that she doesn't person a driver's license.

Shortly after, contempt her children's galore activities, she started pursuing the precocious schoolhouse grade she ne'er received with the assistance of Adult Education Teacher Kathy Kabbani.

"Maria is 1 of the kindest, hardest moving radical that I know," Kabbani said.

For the past 3 years, Maria has worked hard to implicit each of her assignments.

Maria says erstwhile it got tough, Kabbani was determination to promote her to support going.

"I kept saying you cognize you tin bash this. You got it. It whitethorn not beryllium arsenic rapidly arsenic you privation it to be, but it's not a race," Kabbani said.

Now with her sanction among the graduating people of 2024, she hopes it proves to her children and others that they tin bash thing they privation to do.

"Now I tin accidental I'm done with a batch of hard work, but I'm blessed for that," Maria said.

Maria volition postgraduate connected June 6 alongside astir 20 of her classmates. After that, she hopes to get her driver's licence and yet spell to cosmetology school.

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