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Bloom 206 Graduates more than 600 Future Leaders
In its first graduation ceremony since the COVID pandemic, the district held four socially distanced ceremonies.
Bloom Township High School District 206 held its first public commencement since 2019 over the weekend as 623 students graduated from Bloom and Bloom Trail High Schools.
Due to COVID restrictions, last year’s graduation event was limited to photos of individual students receiving their diplomas in an organized drive-up program. With pandemic restrictions lightening up in Illinois, the district shifted to a socially distanced in-person series of four graduation events in which each student could give tickets to two guests to watch the ceremony at Sarff Field.
Bloom Superintendent Lenell Navarre and Bloom Township Board of Education accepted both classes and offered words of support and wisdom for the graduates.
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“You have progressed far and learned much; now it is time for you to take on the biggest steps as you start to assume responsibility for your own lives, your next level of education, and ultimately your own careers,” Navarre said to the class. “ Your options are not limited. Whatever you decide, wherever you go, you go with our blessings and wishes for a happy and successful future.”
The Bloom 206 NJROTC presented the colors at the event, and the principals of each school presented the class of 2021 at the respective ceremonies. Also speaking at the event were students of the 2020 graduating classes of each school, offering words of advice, encouragement, and inspiration to the graduating seniors. Funmilola Victoria Adesida represented the Bloom Trail Class of 2020 and Dante Maddox Jr. represented the Bloom Class of 2020.