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Matinee: 'Grad Walk 2023'
24 June 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 506th in our series of Saturday matinees today: Grad Walk 2023.
Every year the graduates of Langley Secondary School in British Columbia, Canada, return to their middle and elementary schools to walk the halls one last time and thank those that helped them along the way.
This appears to be the first since the pandemic paused the tradition after 2019. Which may explain the music.
What there is no mystery about, though, is the accomplishment.
Graduations are not to be taken lightly. They represent years of daily challenges. Of being wrong and getting it right. Of doing what you never thought you could. Of becoming knowledgeable about something. Of acquiring the humility that comes with confronting a body of knowledge.
The LSS Grad Walk is a marvelous culmination of that achievement.
By revisiting the grads' middle and elementary schools, it puts each graduate's achievement in perspective for them, reminding them how far they have come and giving them a chance to thank the inspirational teachers who pointed them in the right direction. It must be a very heart-warming experience for those teachers, too.
But it does a lot more than revisit the past.
The graduates parade through the current students at those middle and elementary schools. Seeing those caps and gowns of the big kids, the little ones can't help but imagine the day they too will be dressed as graduates and take the same walk. It inspires them today with a vision of the future.
The slideshow was a coordinated effort by LSS photography students Adela Cabrera Chou, Christina Mann, Elise Caudle and Brianna Green, as well as their teachers Ms. Turpin and Mr. Tesan.
And, yes, it will bring tears to your eyes.