Taking your hopes and dreams on the road

By Stephen Weir

Five hundred graduate students with parents, teachers and principals cheering them on, celebrated their last day in Grade 12 on Tuesday by walking up to gates of York University and marching in. The students are from four high schools in the Jane Finch corridor district – C.W. Jeffreys, Westview, Emery and Downsview High.

The point of the annual parade is to mark the graduation of the students and to encourage them not to end their studies after Grade 12.  Many of the students have probably never toured York – until yesterday –  and the university laid out the red carpet and red lion to make it a fun, memorable visit.

The Caribbean Camera took a walk with Itah Sadu, the MC and Ringmaster of this scholarly parade. Here are four pictures from that Walk with Excellence.

  C.W.Jeffreys, Downsview High, Emery, Itah, Sadu, Westview