Shiawassee Times

Seniors who are graduating from Owosso High School won’t be receiving their diplomas in a drive-thru ceremony like previously discussed by school officials. 

A drive-thru ceremony was being planned as a back-up to a traditional commencement due to the COVID-19 crisis. In a letter issued earlier last month, school administrators said they received a large number of appeals to hold off on the graduation until there can be a normal ceremony rather than going with the back-up plan, MLive reports.

The back-up plan included a parade through the city and students would receive diplomas in a drive-thru line in the high school parking lot.

In the letter, Superintendent Andrea Tuttle and Principal Jeff Phillips wrote that they thought the drive-thru graduation would have been a positive alternative due to social distancing concerns.

“We sincerely thought option two would be a positive alternative if social distancing restrictions were not lifted,” the letter reads. “Our intention was always to provide a respectful commencement filled with pomp and circumstance and this remains our goal.”