Cleveland Area Graduation Once Again At Playhouse Square
With June right around the corner, high school graduations will be approaching. For Life Skills, that means 24 graduations in a one month period.
For the second graduation period in a row, the Cleveland-area Life Skills along with the Life Skills of Elyria will hold their commencement ceremony at Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland.
"This is a new venue as of January," Life Skills of Cleveland Administrator Vernon Fawcett said. "We are still evaluating how to make it work as far as decorations and involvement."
Life Skills of Elyria Administrator Eric Woods agrees that they have learned things from the first time around and will have a better idea of how to make the place look more like a Life Skills graduation come June 13.
"We are going to get decorations and make it look snazzier this time around," Woods said. "The place is really, really nice."
With four schools collaborating on the event, each school is in charge of a certain aspect of graduation so that the night goes off without a hitch and is a memory the students will cherish for the rest of their lives.
"We each took a part," Fawcett said. "We (Cleveland) are working on Playhouse Square, Northeast is working on the speaker, Lake Erie will emcee and coordinate practice and Elyria is putting together the programs."
After the four schools saw 55 students receive their diplomas in the January graduation, Woods is excited as he looks forward to a larger number of students walking across the stage in June.
"We are still waiting for some OGT results to come in and some senior class work to be completed," Woods said. "But we are looking to have about 20 or so kids for each school so it should be a good number."
If that number holds, it will be right around the same amount of graduates the schools had in the June, 2010 graduation, when 78 students were honored.
Along with the honor of receiving a high school diploma, the graduates will hear a commencement address from Cuyahoga County councilman Pernel Jones, Jr.
Once the students have crossed the stage and been handed their diploma, they will join over 14,000 others who have already graduated from Life Skills.
- Posted: 05-10-2011