Jacksboro Elementary School plans fifth grade promotion parade

Jacksboro Elementary School has developed a new way to honor the fifth graders in their final time at the school before they move on to bigger and better things at Jacksboro Middle School.

On Wednesday, May 20, the students will have one last trip through the Jacksboro Elementary School parking lot and, to ensure they can find their new school, will have a parade that will end at Jacksboro Middle School. The parade will begin at 7 p.m. at the elementary school, but the 82 fifth graders and their families are asked to line up in the carline at the school starting at 6:15 p.m. 

Signs will be placed on the vehicles to recognize the student for their promotion. The parade will begin with circling the front parking lot of Jacksboro Elementary and exit into the back onto Sixth Street. The parade will then follow Sixth Street and enter in the Jacksboro Middle School back entrance. 

The parade will move through the middle school parking lot and exit out the front of the school onto West Belknap Street.

Teachers and members of the staffs from both schools will be on hand to say goodbye to their former students and hello to their new students.

For the full story, see the Wednesday, May 13, edition of the Jacksboro Herald-Gazette.