Graduating high school students across the country have seen their senior years clouded by the global pandemic. But for the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School class of 2021 — a creative, pioneering group of five students — a virus wasn’t going to be the thing to define them.
“They weren’t going to be held back,” said charter school director Pete Steedman on Wednesday, seated in a circle beside the school’s graduating seniors during the traditional senior class lunch picnic at Owen Park.
“They clearly had a direction, they maintained their individual passions and those passions are still alive and well,” Mr. Steedman said, gesturing at the soon-to-be graduates, who chatted over sandwiches. President of the board Steve Nierenberg also joined the students for lunch.
