Visiting scholars: La Jolla elementary schools hold reunions for graduating high school seniors
Prior to placing on a cap and gown to mark the end of large college, graduating seniors in La Jolla participated in another graduation custom: donning their foreseeable future college’s equipment and gathering with their former elementary college classmates at the locations where they to start with got schooled.
Hen Rock Elementary School
Graduating large college seniors who attended Chicken Rock Elementary College collect for a reunion June 2.
(Elisabeth Frausto)
Bird Rock Elementary held its reunion June 2 on its upper playground, inviting its course of 2015 to collect, critique aged yearbooks and share treats.
Nera Holland explained it was “super overwhelming” to be amid her previous Chicken Rock classmates. “Time [is] traveling, but it’s delighted. This is these kinds of a awesome college and it is joyful to be back among my mates in this article.”
“Everything looks so small,” she included.
“It’s nostalgic,” reported former BRES university student Karis Bauman. “Being again in this atmosphere, currently being back again where by we utilized to wander in and see our courses. … So several recollections coming again at us.”
A number of students said farewell to Carol Shear, a 3rd-quality teacher who experienced just introduced her retirement.
Immediately after teaching for 26 yrs at BRES, Shear stated she has most enjoyed the local community. “The collaboration concerning the local community, staff members and learners is just like a small relatives.”
Shear mentioned observing the graduating seniors all over again is “rewarding.”
“The reality that they want to occur back again, it reinforces what we do,” she claimed. “We’re all transferring on. It’s a wonderful matter.”
Torrey Pines Elementary Faculty
Graduating significant faculty seniors reunite June 6 at their previous elementary college, Torrey Pines.
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Graduating seniors who attended Torrey Pines Elementary congregated throughout from the school June 6, hugging previous classmates, lecturers and other students’ mother and father.
Renee Kenagy, whose daughter Chiara is graduating, arranged the occasion. “Half the kids I do not figure out mainly because they fully adjusted,” Kenagy stated.
TPES trainer Martha Bagaporo, who taught fourth quality for the school’s class of 2015, explained the yearly reunions “are enjoyable for me for the reason that I truly feel like in fourth grade, some of us have college figured out, but quite a few really don’t. When they come back right here, they’re all so achieved.”
“It’s a privilege to get to assert a minor piece of that,” she claimed.
Seniors Daniel Kozbial and Ajay Krishnan reported they appreciated the reunion but it was a bit bizarre.
“I did not see a lot of people people today for decades,” Kozbial said.
“It’s been weird not seeing them for a although,” Krishnan stated.
La Jolla Elementary College
Graduating large school seniors who went to La Jolla Elementary College reunited to parade by way of the campus June 10.
(Elisabeth Frausto)
La Jolla Elementary’s class of 2015 reunion June 10 commenced with a parade. Seniors walked in a line in the course of the campus as present-day teachers and learners stood outside their school rooms applauding the graduates.
Lots of academics hugged their former learners, remarking on how a great deal they’ve developed.
“I enjoy this custom,” said mum or dad Kirstin Crago, whose son Nathan Kirn is graduating and whose daughter is in fifth grade at LJES. “It’s distinctive that we have it.”
Senior Mari (Logan) Morrison said returning to LJES was “a fever dream. I truly feel like I should not be right here but I ought to be below. It’s surreal.”
“Everybody appears so diverse,” Morrison mentioned. “The young children search so very small I can not imagine I was that compact when I was below.”
“I really like this faculty,” Morrison extra. “It’s this kind of a great local community listed here.” ◆
