After fractured goodbye four years ago, Homewood reunion helps former middle school students say farewell

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Superintendent Scott McAlister said the high school seniors appeared more eager than most to make up lost time. The 2020 graduating class included about 100 students, and he said the homecoming tur…

High school seniors returned May 24, 2024, to the James Hart Middle School in Homewood, four years after their eighth grade end-of-year celebrations were curtailed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Even after the eighth grade class graduates each year at the middle school, the district encourages the students to remain close, to remember their class. To this end, the school hosts a goodbye celebration when they graduate and then again, four years later, as they graduate high school.

“It’s actually something we’ve done in previous years,” he explained. “We’d invite back students graduating high school back for a final farewell.” McAlister said the high school seniors appeared more eager than most to make up lost time. The 2020 graduating class included about 100 students, and he said the homecoming turnout was great — a sign of its importance.

McAlister said their resiliency showed as this year, four years on, the students were graduating high school, the same as anyone else who came before them, some bound for higher education and some the workforce.Members of the James Hart Middle School Class of 2020 reminisce May 24, 2024, during a reunion to make up for their eighth grade celebrations being curtailed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

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