On April 22, 2020, Horry County Schools Superintendent Dr. Rick Maxey announced that the class of 2020 would have a virtual graduation due to COVID-19. Our graduations are not supposed to held until the first week of June. He announced this on the same day that Governor McMaster announced schools would be closed for the remainder of the year. The Governor allowed the freedom for district superintendents to come up with alternate ways to have a safe graduation. We believe this call to have a virtual graduation was made much too early to judge. Our class has worked extremely hard to reach this milestone and it has been taken away from us much too soon. We ask that you sign this because we believe there are alternate options available to make a graduation work. Whether it is postponed to later in the summer or moved to a new location where precautions are met, we still want to have a chance to achieve what we have always looked forward to. The RIGHT way.