CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – The Clarksville-Montgomery County community is coming together with Adopt a CMCSS Senior 2020.
Organized by volunteers and teachers, the program celebrates seniors who won’t get a traditional graduation ceremony this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Members of the community can request to join the “Adopt a CMCSS Senior 2020” Facebook group and adopt a senior whose parents have posted their photos and biography.
Jill Smith, a CMCSS teacher, volunteers with the group and says it’s a nice way to acknowledge the seniors.
“The people who adopt them are the people who are sending them gifts, goodies, cards, and all kinds of items just to show that the community supports and remembers them,” Smith said.
Smith added that the response from the public has been wonderful and It’s not just for CMCSS students. The program is open to any senior in the class of 2020 that lives in Montgomery County and includes private schools, online schools, and home school seniors.
Program organizers are reaching out to parents asking them to post their student’s photo and a brief bio about the student.
“We have had such an overwhelming response from the community. We are actually in need of more seniors so they can adopt them,” Smith said.
Adopt a CMCSS Senior 2020 is a an initiative by a private group on Facebook, not affiliated with the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System and participation in the program is totally voluntary.
To find out more go to Adopt a CMCSS Senior 2020/facebook.