By Rachel Raskin-Zrihen

“Life happens.”

It’s a truism spoken by Vallejo City Unified School District Superintendent Adam Clark, to explain the circumstances that brought the 58 graduates of the district’s Regional Education Center, to Friday’s commencement ceremony.

Also known as the “adult school,” the center is where many people who didn’t finish high school the usual way still accomplish their goals when the time is right.

There were high-fives all around, and loud shouts and applause from a crowd that filled the Hogan Middle School auditorium which was just as celebratory as those attending typical high school graduations.

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