It’s that time of the year. We are in the midst of Graduation Season. We’ve had stories from parents talking about their children graduating, and now it’s time for a teacher’s perspective.
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I have worked in this district for eight years now. The first five were at a middle/high school, and these last three have been in the new building that has consolidated two and a half high schools. I am a choir director, which means some of the graduating seniors I taught in the old middle/high school as 8th graders. We have grown up together.
Being a choir director is different from a math teacher, for example. The kids all know each other, and have sung together for years. The choir room is a haven. We hear everything from our students—hopes, dreams, even deep secrets that not even their parents know. We are a family. And ALL feel it when the seniors graduate.
It’s a long tradition that the choir performs a number at graduation. And for that number, we invite our graduates to come and sing with their classmates one last time. This was the song chosen by one of the seniors that we sang today. It brought the house to tears.
Lots of hugs and tears from the kids to each other. Because we’re on the floor, our kids got to hug and cry with the graduates as they received their diplomas. And so did I. Here’s a series of pictures of me with my new graduates
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