Facebook and Instagram to send graduates off with a commencement speech from Oprah
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It’s hard not to feel terrible for the graduating class of 2020, an embattled group of hard-working students who were robbed of the biggest (and most expensive, truly) years of their high school careers. The commencement ceremony, largely symbolic and a little tedious to some, is meant to be grand finale of a pretty whirlwind year. But with everything cancelled thanks to coronavirus, the “big walk” has devolved into the “big wave at the Zoom chat,” which is just not the same as walking the stage or skipping the pomp and circumstance on your own terms. It’s been a rough year, and these students have more than earned the choice.