“I know logically that it’s gonna get canceled, but I just keep hoping that it won’t. Because it kind of feels like that little bit of hope is the only thing getting me through it.”
Ashley Sturla has been thinking about her senior year for as long as she can remember. Prom, Grad Bash, Senior Skip Day and“I thought it was going to be like the movies, literally,” said the 18-year-old senior at Atlantic High in Port Orange, Florida.Now, Sturla is one of Florida’s 200,000 high school seniors waiting to find out what’s going to happen to their graduation dreams. So far, schools are closed through April, and extracurricular activities scheduled for the month,, were canceled too.
. At a White House news briefing on Tuesday, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he thinks the country will be"in good shape" to reopen schools in the fall.The St. Johns County school district in Northeast Florida already chose to cancel graduation ceremonies. But most Florida school districts are waiting to hear from state leaders if school closures will extend past May 1 and into graduation season.
Duval County Public Schools Superintendent Diana Greene said in a message to families that she’s hopeful graduations will be able to continue in May, but if not her team is looking into “various creative ways” to honor graduates. “Even if the kids go back to school on May 1, I don’t foresee having thousands of people in a room together at the end of May,” she said. “As a parent, I’m a little heartbroken for the kids … they’ve spent 13 of the 18 years they’ve been alive working for this one day.”“Graduation has not been canceled yet, but I am so afraid it will be,” said Kendall Little, a senior at Mandarin High School in Jacksonville.
Students started a petition to postpone rather than cancel traditional ceremonies, which so far has gathered more than 11,000 signatures. "The main thing for us, whether it happens in May or it happens in July, we all still want to be able to walk that stage because we all worked so hard for 12 years," said Conner Rainey, the senior class president at Barron Collier High in Naples."We want to be able to have that moment just like everybody else did, but we also want to make sure that it's safe for us to do that.
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