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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The glitz and glam of prom nighttime is present over, and Claudia Rocha and her classmates person near their last handprints connected their elder year.
She's got the headdress and gown acceptable for graduation, and present she's excited that she conscionable has to decorativeness up the last weeks of people astatine Parlier High.
"I'm done with school," Claudia said done laughter.
It's nary astonishment she's acceptable to postgraduate due to the fact that astatine the commencement of her elder year, she wasn't a pupil successful Parlier.
She attended Edison High School successful Fresno.
But she struggled.
She says it started to spell downhill successful her sophomore twelvemonth erstwhile she was depressed, and astir days didn't privation to get retired of bed.
"I truly didn't -- I didn't wage attention. That twelvemonth was similar truly blank," Claudia said.
Her inferior year, things started to prime up again, but she was warned she was down connected credits.
"They didn't archer maine however much, but I conscionable cognize it was bad," Claudia said.
She started moving connected making up immoderate of those mislaid credits.
But her idiosyncratic beingness besides took a toll.
Her parents divided up, and she went from surviving with her ma to surviving with her dad.
She was commuting to schoolhouse from her dad's location successful Parlier to Fresno each day.
But aft she wrecked the car, she was forced to transportation to Parlier High successful January.
That determination ended up moving successful her favour due to the fact that schoolhouse counsellor Jennifer Diaz made definite Claudia knew conscionable however down she was successful school.
"I reviewed her transcript, and she was 60 credits behind," Diaz said.
Missing that galore credits meant not lone would Claudia not beryllium allowed to locomotion astatine graduation, but determination was the imaginable she whitethorn not graduate.
That's erstwhile world acceptable in.
She said she besides thought astir what illustration she would beryllium mounting for her 2 younger brothers.
But aft gathering with Diaz astir imaginable solutions, she was acceptable to bash things differently.
"That gathering truly changed my mind," Claudia said.
She started recognition recovery, which is autarkic survey enactment connected apical of her mean classes.
"I'm capable to way erstwhile students past enactment connected it, truthful I'd spot her moving precocious astatine night, weekends and she did it," Diaz said.
Now, with conscionable a mates of weeks until graduation, she's wholly caught up connected credits and allowed to graduate.
Diaz says what Claudia did successful specified a abbreviated play of clip is extraordinary.
"I'm conscionable truthful arrogant of her. I can't stress that enough. I'm truly arrogant of her. I cognize she's travel a agelong way," Diaz said.
Now that Claudia is astir done with class, she's funny successful what the aboriginal has to connection her.
"I'm benignant of scared, tense -- but I'm truly arrogant of myself, similar I'm done. I'm done," Claudia said.
Claudia hasn't decided precisely what she wants to bash aft precocious school, but she's reasoning astir going to cosmetology schoolhouse oregon moving to go a aesculapian adjunct oregon certified nursing assistant.
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