It’s graduation season! And for the Bethel School District—that means it’s Grad Walk time. That’s when seniors march through the hallways of their former elementary schools, looking to inspire. It’s an annual tradition.
Meadow View elementary schoolers are lined up on both sides of the hall excited for the arrival of the “big kids” from Kalapua and Willamette high schools.
At first sight of the seniors, decked out in their maroon caps and gowns, the kids go wild! As the graduating seniors parade past, they give high fives and thumps up.
For the Bethel Grad Walk, seniors bus to all nine elementary and middle schools in the district. Jada Iheanyi-Igwe felt sentimental walking through her old school.
“I saw some of my old teachers and it was really sad,” she said. “But also really happy. I was ‘this tall’ when they taught me and now I’m here and I’m graduating!”
Willamette High School commencement is Friday, June 7. Kalapua High School seniors graduate June 13.
Bethel District graduating seniors visited little students during the Grad Walk at Prairie Mountain, Fairfield, Malabon, Cascade, Irving, Meadow View, Danebo, Clear Lake and Shasta elementary and middle schools on Thursday, June 6.
