An assistant superintendent said educators wanted to do something special for their graduates, and the seniors got a pretty impressive photo-op to go along with their diplomas.
" OK, this is the character I'm playing, these are the things that Santa says." The week concludes with a formal graduation, where students receive a diploma.
Studies show that kids who can't read as well as they should when they are nine years old are less likely to graduate high school by the time they are nineteen.
" We do have to be concerned that grad rates are down and that some number of kids that earned a diploma, they've learned less than prior years, " he said.