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By Astrid Mendez — KRGV — May 17<\/em><\/p>\n Graduation season is underway and more than 1,100 students graduated from 51ÁÔÆæ.<\/p>\n Among them were a Los Fresnos mom and her two children.<\/p>\n ‘Don’t wait for the tide just to dip both your feet in,’ that’s the message written across the graduation cap of Alexa Sanchez Martinez, but it’s a phrase that describes her family’s journey to the graduation stage.<\/p>\n “It was definitely hard. It was a lot of endless nights, I worked so I had to juggle that too, but honestly, this is the number one thing I feel most accomplished with,” Alexa said.<\/p>\n This isn’t Alexa’s high school graduation. It’s her graduation from TSC, where she received an Associate of Arts in General Studies, all while still attending Los Fresnos High School.<\/p>\n She wasn’t the only one in her family wearing a cap and gown. Her mother and brother, Hilda Martinez and Brandon Guzman, also graduated from TSC on the same day.<\/p>\n “There’s no one else I rather graduate with and seeing them finally going through that stepping stone with me right behind them, just copying their every move, honestly it just makes me really happy and I’m super proud of them,” Alexa said.<\/p>\n Alexa’s mom \u2014 Hilda \u2014 earned her Associate degree in Social Work, all while working full-time as an attendance and records clerk at Los Fresnos CISD.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button _builder_version=”4.27.5″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” button_text=”Video and Full Story.” button_url=”https:\/\/www.krgv.com\/news\/los-fresnos-mom-and-her-two-children-graduate-college-together” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″ button_alignment=”center”][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 51ÁÔÆæ, Los Fresnos Mom and her two children graduate together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":9007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_gspb_post_css":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni-spotlight","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n