The Graduates

Just months ago, we were preparing our young people for a world we thought we recognized. Since then, the global pandemic brought pieces of society as we knew it to a screeching halt, interrupting social and economic activity, and turning education remote. The health impacts and economic devastation of the pandemic, and the gap in educational opportunities, meanwhile, magnified our nation’s inequities, laying bare pieces of our society that were there all along, often, to many, out of sight. Finally, the violence that accompanies our well trod racial divides, erupted a nation of voices, united in demanding justice and declaring, louder than ever, “enough is enough.” This is the world our seniors are walking into, the world they will help to shape. Never again will graduates inherit this particular dynamic moment in human history. 

John Pennington

Kesshem Williams

Kaito Maekawa

Giancarlo Young

As we celebrate our seniors and reflect upon their time with us, we also look to them as a barometer by which we can measure our own small school’s contribution to the more just, compassionate, and resilient society we work towards. We know these students well. We have seen barriers criss-crossed by them, the fabric of our community stitched together as they have united worlds separated by differences in communication, learning, ability, upbringing, and race. They have learned with their hands the importance of healthy soil as a foundation and they have created it, the importance of diversity as a key component of sustainability, and they have grown it. They have reaped the fruits of these labors and so have we. As a school, we could not be more proud of who they are as they enter this world on the brink of change; and we know, without a doubt, that their presence in the world is a contribution to the higher good of all.

Congratulations to Our Graduates!