Written By: Sophia Caruso, Staff Writer
ELEMENTARY ROOTS: The seniors will visit elementary schools that feed into Poly High School, dressed in cap and gowns, to motivate and inspire young children to someday graduate themselves.
The senior walk is a wonderful opportunity to motivate and encourage young students and inspire them to work hard in order to achieve the privilege of graduating high school. High school and even middle school can be challenging but our seniors will show them that it is possible with perseverance. To participate in the senior walk, seniors will get dressed in their cap and gowns and walk through an elementary school for all the students to see.
Poly is making this a new tradition, not only will this help the students at RUSD elementary schools have something to look forward to but, it will also allow the seniors to say a final goodbye to their former teachers. Jerry Vaughan, a senior at Poly, believes that if he was an elementary school student it would get him “super excited for high school” and that it would also show him there would be a possibility that he “could get there one day too.”
Many seniors support this new tradition, and are excited to be potential role models to young students that stand where they stood many years ago. Nicole Hsu, another senior at Poly, is excited to visit an elementary school because it is an opportunity to “make one last memory with friends as high school students.”
The senior walk is not just a Poly movement, there have been similar activities in Texas, Arkansas, and now in Riverside, California. Hopefully, in the next few years this will become a tradition everywhere in America where students can be inspired and excited for their future.