As most of you high school and college seniors already know, it’s graduation season, but with one pandemic graduation already under the belts of the school district, it will look different than last. The last graduation season in 2020 was filled with virtual ceremonies and canceled events. This year, it seems to be headed in a different direction with in-person graduations … [Read more...]
In-Person Graduations Return for OCPS at Amway Center
Orange County’s public high schools will hold their socially distanced in-person graduations for seniors at the Amway Center, superintendent Barbara Jenkins said after an Orange County School Board meeting. The graduation will require face masks, limit the number of tickets per graduate, require everyone to social distance, and have strict arrival and departure … [Read more...]
Lake Nona’s Young Physicians Graduate and Prepare to Battle Pandemic
COVID-19 did not stop their match. It did not stop their graduation, and now as they take their positions as doctors across our nation, UCF’s newest physicians are helping to stop COVID-19. Last month, 117 UCF medical students became Physician Knights in a virtual graduation personalized with their thanks to family, friends, faculty, and even their patients. COVID-19 … [Read more...]
Mama’s Turn: My Son Is Graduating, and I Feel…
My son walks into my office and tosses a school permission slip onto my desk the way he has so many other times over the past 12 years of school, 13 if we count kindergarten. Before I can reach for it to see where he is off to this time, he walks back in and grabs it back. “I just realized,” he says with a smirk, “I’m 18 now and can sign this myself!” And just like that, my … [Read more...]
‘Time Flies’ Might Be a Cliché, But It Is a Bittersweet Reality
When I took my first born, Ric, to his first day of school, someone said to me, “Time flies, enjoy every minute!” I am pretty sure no mom of a four-year-old thinks time flies. Let’s be real....they are driving us crazy at home, and we want them in school. Our sanity NEEDS them in school. At the time, of course, I was polite and said, “Aww, thanks!” while I was thinking, … [Read more...]