Students split on holding in-person graduations despite COVID-19 fears.
May 20, 2020, 8:52 PMJeanarry Hernandez, who is graduating at the top of her Alabama high school’s senior class, disagrees with the school’s decision to proceed with a commencement ceremony and will not attend.
"It is just one thing to give them closure for this part of their life," Kerri Pate, a mother of a Thompson High senior,As of Wednesday, Jefferson and Shelby counties, where Hoover is located, had 1,771 confirmed coronavirus cases and 87 related deaths, according to data from the state and the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Statewide, there had been 12,376 confirmed cases and 504 deaths.
"Coronavirus cases continue to rise in Alabama, and no matter the precautions taken a gathering of that size will have deadly consequences," she wrote in the petition. "You and your family missed out on so many things out of your control. But not even a global pandemic could deprive you of this moment," Wayne Vickers, superintendent of Alabaster City Schools, told the Thompson High graduates.The Hoover City school system said it will take strict measures for its two ceremonies -- Spain Park High has close to 400 seniors and Hoover has over 700.
"All of our students will be celebrated, even those who chose not to come -- and we understand that," she"I know this isn't the most convenient thing, but having a drive-in or in-person graduation where a limited number of people come in each day would be safer than having thousands of people come in at one time," she said.
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