Tomball High School and Tomball Memorial High School parents have created “Adopt a Senior” Facebook pages to encourage people to congratulate and celebrate individual students.
Kathleen Hauck, a parent and administrator for the Adopt a Tomball High School Senior page, said the response has been great so far.
“We have 711 members, and 120 seniors have already been adopted,” she said.
Tomball High School’s page was created by a fellow parent, Alana Millsaps, Hauck said, with the goal of getting every student at the high school adopted.
Hauck said parents can post information about their child to the page; then, another member can volunteer to adopt the student.
Adopters have also provided gifts to seniors, Hauck said—her own daughter received a gift basket.
“My daughter was so excited that somebody would take the time and go out of their way to care that much,” she said.
Tomball Memorial High School has started a page as well, parent and page administrator Samantha Brojanac said.
“There were a couple parents asking about it on our senior parent organization page, ... so I sat down one night [and] created the page,” she said.
Brojanac said everyone is in the same boat with the sense of loss.
“We are sad for our kids and ourselves," she said. "We don’t get to do all the things we thought we would do with them—all the different little things that go along with your senior year.”
This is a way to celebrate the seniors and have parents show their appreciation, Brojanac said, and the response from everyone involved has been positive and appreciative.
“It is just making a difference,” she said. “It is something [parents] can do with their kid and [show] their kids they are not alone.”
Brojanac said comments on the posts have been some of seniors' favorite parts.
“Some of the parents are doing little memories of the kids,” she said. "There are so many comments on each one just with memories of that person and that student.”
