Glad this has been arranged. I hope students and community are both eager to take part. This is a great time to have access to a flatbed truck.

Sounds fun. Is there a starting and/or ending location? Sounds like people just hop on the merry go round. Might be nicer to have everyone start from a central point and joiners can hop in behind the last car so that everyone does a full lap.

Will the roads be closed to regular traffic?
Can bicycles still ride on any of the route roads?

What about protecting our Ozone layer? Parade kinda sounds like when we went crusin' up and down El Camino for hours in our cars.

Starts at 5:30pm, then lasting how long? Seems kind of dangerous to have this at night.

Pathetic. Stay home!

Is anyone else concerned about this clashing with protests? The area is on edge with curfews being drawn up when incidents of looting appear in a community. We are on the edge of a very upmarket shopping center and it is quite possible that Stanford will be targeted at some time in the next few days.

I suggest to proceed with great caution on this and would be extremely wary of taking part or having my loved ones take part.

The bookends of our daughter's life so far has been 9/11 and pandemic/injustice/economic disaster. I am grateful to be given a brief respite Wednesday evening to celebrate her and her cohorts and be reminded to keep hope alive.

Look for us at Greene (Jordan) Middle School! We will be out taking photos as you go by! We will have both sides of the street covered. The photos will be up by the weekend. See you then!

Great idea! These kids have worked hard and deserve some celebration.
This is a simple lovely recognition making the best of things during a difficult time. 5:30pm is well before sundown.

Saddened by the gloom-doom naysayers. Ugh.

The majority of PAUSD students bike or walk to school. I bet adults organized this. Good grief. How about a bike parade? I'm not getting in my car to stand in line and clog streets emitting fumes the will hasten climate change. Are we thinking about our kids future with this celebration?

My daughter said she thinks this is more to make the parents feel better than the kids. What the kids are really missing is in-person goodbyes and celebration with friends they have known since elementary school. They are missing signing yearbooks and hug and sharing tears and the joy of this moment. I'm sorry kids are missing this rite of passage, but a car parade with people encased in steel is not the way to fill the gap.

@Bike Parade - Then don't participate. No one is making your daughter drive around. My son is not participating, but I don't harp on the people that want to get out and drive around. I also don't bad-mouth anyone that helped set it up. And, from what I can tell, it was the PAUSD superintendent, the activities directors from the district's high schools along with, I'm sure, administrations from the private high schools in the city.

No one is saying the car parade is taking the place of a graduation ceremony. It's one way the district came up with to celebrate the seniors. Why is that a bad thing?

If you want a bike parade, then organize a bike parade. Where were you when the schools were discussing the car parade? Maybe that would have been a good time to step up and organize something. Or, since you seem to be upset with parents organizing activities, have your daughter organize the bike parade. No one is stopping her from saying goodbye to any of her elementary school friends.

Do you really think that 500 cars driving around for an hour is going to end the planet or even hasten its demise to any measurable degree?

If we still had our drive-in, schools could have had it there - in their cars.
Parents pooled their money together and rented the screen.
Other cities around the US did this, and it was extremely successful.

Id like to thank everyone for being part of the dialogue /conversation. Its truly valuable to see how others are thinking and feeling. I am humbled by the thought and care others have for everyone and our planet . Thank you all! We are only human.
I hope for the best for all of us , no matter how we see the upcoming graduation celebration event . As for me, I plan to try to remember the basic adage to find the good because good is everywhere!!! I wish those who are graduating congratulations and those who wanted to graduate but did not make it I wish them well and I also wish all of us well because we are all struggling in someway perhaps or another . Peace to all.

No facts to check.

Thank you community for trying to recognize this moment and give these teens a positive memory.

Great idea!!

and all of you that are uncomfortable with it - stay at home!! These kids chance to celebrate has been ruined by Covid let them have a little fun. thank you

@Bike Parade

Wow your statement was ignorant beyond belief. In addition the the excellent points from No Wonder, let me offer this one: read the article. Bike parades are not allowed by county order.

I thought we lived in an educated community. Good grief indeed.

@ read this article

then stay at home. You can do it. ! If all of this scares you bunker up to the vaccine

Thank you for organizing! Let's raise the roof for the Class of 2020!

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