Bolivar High School holding “Decision Day” with rootED Missouri to celebrate graduating seniors

BOLIVAR, Mo. (KY3) – An inaugural occasion at Bolivar Excessive Faculty is all about celebrating seniors and their accomplishments.

Determination Day focuses on the graduating seniors at Bolivar Excessive Faculty and what they’re deciding to do after commencement, whether or not it’s school, commerce faculty, or coming into the workforce.

It’s all made attainable by rootED Missouri, a program that places school and profession advisors in rural colleges to assist in giving college students the instruments they should make educated choices about their futures.

“RootED was a grant that was written final spring that we introduced in and helped develop a rootED advisor,” stated Bolivar Excessive Faculty Principal, Jason Blair. “It actually offers us the chance to concentrate on what our college students need to do after highschool.”

Seniors like Kahl Berry say they’re grateful for his or her rootED advisor and the alternatives she’s given them.

“She’s helped me so much,” stated Berry. “Stepping into State Tech was form of a tough course of however she contacted their admissions and actually helped me get in there and I actually respect that.”

Friday’s Determination Day will begin with a round-table dialogue with state academic leaders, together with educators and college students from Bolivar. Then, there can be an meeting honoring the seniors for his or her exhausting work throughout highschool and celebrating what they’ll be doing post-graduation. Governor Mike Parson together with different state leaders can be in attendance.

“It could possibly be a four-year faculty, could possibly be a two-year faculty,” stated Blair. “Could possibly be a technical faculty that possibly doesn’t even go two years. It might definitely be immediately into the workforce, could possibly be apprenticeships. So loads of alternatives for college students past only a 4 12 months school.”

Blair says he hopes the occasion not solely acknowledges the seniors, however that it additionally conjures up underclassmen and reveals them the alternatives on the market for them.

“Hopefully they’ll see the work they put by way of all 12 months lengthy, and actually for 4 years of highschool is beginning to repay. And we hope our underclassmen, it conjures up them as nicely that there’s loads of alternatives on the market and that we now have the instruments and the backing to assist be sure that they’re profitable as nicely.”

Berry says an occasion like that is essential for seniors, to allow them to see that their exhausting work is price one thing.

“I believe it’s essential as a result of more often than not the seniors simply form of get, nicely I don’t need to say pushed alongside, however that’s how they really feel loads of the time,” stated Berry. “So I believe it’s form of good that we get acknowledged for what we’re doing in life.”

Friday’s occasion is open to Bolivar college students, mother and father, and educators. It takes place at 1 p.m. at Bolivar Excessive Faculty.

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