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Great Graduates 2021: Samuel Garcia Villar
Reagan High School senior will be first in family to graduate in United States
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Great Graduates 2021: Samuel Garcia Villar
SAN ANTONIO – Samuel Garcia Villar dealt with huge change in his life early on. At the age of five, he and his family moved from Colombia to Virginia.
He said did not know any English and that the adjustment was difficult.
“There weren’t too many latinos like myself, and we were definitely the racial minority,” he said.
Garcia Villar said advice his parents gave him came in handy at a time when things seemed to be challenging.
He transferred to Wilson Memorial, but only attended in person for the first two months before COVID-19 closed schools for the rest of the year. This year, McCoy chose to remain a virtual learner, so while he is a Wilson student, he barely got a chance to spend any time in the actual school building. It s not entirely new for me, McCoy said. I actually spent the first two years of high school in Oregon taking all of my classes online.
Although it was short-lived, the experience of being in the classroom last year was exciting for him, the first time he d attended public high school in person.
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