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Photo gallery: CMS students get bubble-blowing send-off to summer

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Students wave goodbye to faculty and staff at Elizabeth Lane Elementary Wednesday, June 8, 2022. Faculty and staff wave, cheer, and blow bubbles to send off students on last day of school. We call it “bubbles and busses,” says Crystal Lail, the principal of Lane Elementary. Lail says that it’s an annual tradition spanning back more than a decade.
Students wave goodbye to faculty and staff at Elizabeth Lane Elementary Wednesday, June 8, 2022. Faculty and staff wave, cheer, and blow bubbles to send off students on last day of school. We call it “bubbles and busses,” says Crystal Lail, the principal of Lane Elementary. Lail says that it’s an annual tradition spanning back more than a decade. Arthur H. Trickett-Wile atrickett-wile@charlotteobserver

Bubble-blowing, waving good-bye and sending off retired teachers with a parade were some of the ways students in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools spent the final day of the 2021-22 school year.

For their final day of school at Elizabeth Lane Elementary, students blew bubbles and then sent off buses with a wave. At Starmount Elementary School, teachers who are retiring were treated to a parade, and then students who left by bus and car were sent off with pom-poms.

We call it “Bubbles and Buses,” says Crystal Lail, the principal of Elizabeth Lane Elementary. Lail says that it’s an annual tradition spanning back more than a decade.

Students at Greenway Park, Smithfield, Selwyn and Lake Wylie elementary schools received big wave-offs at the end of the day.

School is now out for the summer. Students are set to return for the 2022-2023 year on Aug. 29.

Starting with Phillip O. Berry Academy of Technology at 8:30 a.m., graduations start Saturday and continue through Thursday.

This story was originally published June 8, 2022 at 6:09 PM.

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