Jeff Pack
Staff WriterNobody quite knew what to expect as senior Sachka Almonte stepped onto the Great Oak High School stadium field on the morning of Wednesday, May 13. Technically, Almonte was the first-ever Temecula Valley Unified School District student to graduate high school in the new virtual format the district implemented due to the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent social-distancing restrictions. Two of her family members watched from behind the fence that runs alongside the field, as Almonte, dressed in her cap and gown, was directed from a professional photo session by Studio 94 beside a 2020 sign to a series of school administrators, teachers and staff members who showed her where to go next. She was directed to the front of one of three stages set up by Gre
