Good story.  We need more of this kind of service.  I went to the Lakeridge High School graduation.  That deal was about hugs,  and more hugs.  Every kid got  hugged,  and hugged buddies and classmates.  The Prinicpal was teary,  hugging every kid. She was their Principal in Junior High,  and progressed with them to high school.  The student speakers were genuine and accomplished.  Of course,  it is a public school which  is much,  much more demanding that most,  and has much higher academic standards than Oregon Dept of Education demands.  It's a wealthy neighborhood,  and the paying public has high expectations from their schools.  I would proffer they are getting what they are paying for,  volunteering to improve,  holding the myriad fund raisers,  and the citizen organized, led,  program to get special education levies on the local property tax bill just to aid schools in hiring accomplished staff,  to offer diverse course study.  Big community effort.  Appears to be working.