DESPITE LESS THAN 2% OF OUR POPULATION BEING ASIAN AND 81 YEAR OLD GETTING HER HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA JUST IN TIME FOR MOTHER’S DAY AS ANCHOR BREANA ALBIZU XU FOUND OUT. IT’S ALL THANKS TO THE HELP OF HER OWN SON. IT’S A STORY YOU’LL SEE ONLY ON SEVEN. IT’S A PICTURE WILLIE GRIEGO FOUND ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO. IT SHOWS THE CLASS OF SANTA ROSA HIGH SCHOOL BACK IN 1959. BUT IT LOOKS A LITTLE STRANGE. WHERE’S MY MOM? THAT’S THE SAME YEAR HIS PARENTS WERE SUPPOSED TO GRADUATE. WHILE HE SEES HIS DAD, HE CAN’T FIND HIS MOM. SO HE ASKED HER. AND THAT’S WHEN SHE HAD TOLD ME THAT SHE WAS UNABLE TO GRADUATE WITH A CLASS BECAUSE SHE WAS PREGNANT WITH ME. JUANITA CHAVEZ. MILLER SAYS SHE WAS KICKED OUT OF HER OWN HIGH SCHOOL ONCE HER PREGNANCY BECAME OBVIOUS, BUT THE FATHER WAS STILL ALLOWED TO GRADUATE. JUANITA ALSO HAD ONLY HALF A SEMESTER LEFT. AND I WAS JUST I JUST WAS HUMILIATED FOR THE FACT THAT I WAS ASKED TO LEAVE SCHOOL. YOU KNOW, THAT WAS THE WORST PART. SO HER SON, WILLIE, WANTED TO CHANGE THAT. IN 2021, HE STARTED ASKING SCHOOL LEADERS ABOUT WAYS TO GET HIS MOTHER’S DIPLOMA AND FINALLY FOUND A WAY SHE BELONGED. CHEERLEADING. GUESS THERE WAS A WAY WHERE SHE COULD GET THAT EXTRA CREDIT AND A HALF AS PART OF LIKE A PROGRAM. I HAD NO IDEA AT ALL. I MEAN, THIS WAS ALL A TOTAL SURPRISE. JUANITA, NOW PART OF THE CLASS OF 2023 AT JUST 81 YEARS YOUNG, SHE GOT A DIPLOMA THE MORNING OF SANTA ROSA’S GRADUATION. BUT IT DID LOOK A LITTLE DIFFERENT. THE MOMENT HAPPENING AT HER OWN RETIREMENT HOME WITH A DEAR SON BY HER SIDE. SHE KEPT PUSHING ME TO MAKE SURE THAT I DID GET MY HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA JUST IN TIME FOR MOTHER’S DAY. I GET A LITTLE EMOTIONAL, BUT I GET A THAT IT’S GOING TO GO ON MY WALL. I HAVE 14 GREAT GRANDCHILD NOW, AND SO I HOPE IT’S AN INSPIRATION TO THAT TOO, YOU KNOW? BREANA ALBIZU YOU KOAT ACTION SEVEN NEWS AND INSPIRATION. INDEED IT IS. WELL, AS FOR HER MESSAGE, JUANITA SAYS IT’S IMPORTAN