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High School Principal Visited Each Of His 612 Graduating Seniors

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Students are feeling the pain of these lost moments, but so are school administrators and teachers. Virdie Montgomery, the principal of Wylie High School in Wylie, Texas, couldn’t stand the thought of all those important events falling away for his school’s 612 seniors.

“I looked at that calendar and I saw all these things that the seniors were going to miss,” Montgomery told Yahoo Life. “We’re a very tradition-laden school and these kids have gone their whole lives looking at what all the seniors have done before them and got to do, and that they looked forward to doing.”

But, what could one person do? Montgomery decided to visit every senior in the graduating class personally.

Montgomery mapped the home of every senior and set out with his wife, who stayed behind the wheel so he could dash out at each senior’s home. The couple thought it would take just a few days to meet each student, but it turned into a 12-day epic road trip totaling 79 hours and covering about 800 miles!

At each stop, Montgomery (who wore a skull-and-crossbones face mask in honor of the school’s pirate mascot) jumped out the car with a candy bar, a note and a little joke.


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