By Todd R. Hansen

One speaker evoked the memory of her friend Daniel Hughes.

Another called on her classmates and generation to speak out for the Palestinian children of Gaza, who she said are far less worried about high school graduation as they are about surviving the bombs and bullets of the ever-tumultuous Hamas-Israel conflict.

“I pray for Palestinians, and I pray for Gaza and that place,” said Maiya Beltran, a 2020 graduate of the Travis Education Center, who said her generation has a responsibility to speak out for those who have no voice of their own.

Source: Graduates of 2021 – and 2020 – bid farewell, extend gratitude to TEC