Preston Hollow Graduation 2021

The graduation ceremony for Hillcrest High School started with a poignant — and a little startling — pronouncement by principal Joseph Sotello.

No other Dallas ISD graduating class this year could claim a tornado, a winter storm, and a pandemic as their hurdles, but the seniors of Thomas Jefferson said those things were never excuses.

Graduation may have been a limited crowd, and might have been a little later than usual, but the Class of 2021 at W.T. White High School can check one more milestone off the list of milestones that happened during a very strange senior year.

It may have been a year fraught with frustrations and uncertainty, but Dallas ISD seniors — unlike last year — will at least have in-person graduation ceremonies.