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Outside Mt. Pleasant High School, there are 247 lawn signs with the faces of all 247 graduates of the class of 2021.
Teachers and staff spent Tuesday morning staking the signs into the ground, reminiscing on students as they pulled face after face from the stacks.
“There’s this aura in the air. They made it. We made it,” said Curi Calderon-Lacy, Mt. Pleasant principal. “We survived the year of so many different situations. Every time we turned a corner, we were facing a new challenge, a new way of doing things.”
This week marks the start of graduation season for Delaware high school seniors. The practices and ceremonies in the coming days will also mark the first time entire graduating classes have been together, after more than a year kept apart by virtual and hybrid schooling.
May 25, 2021
TeenSHARP, Delaware Dept. of Education partnership to prepare
students for college
Wilmington, Del. As the pandemic-affected school year winds down, TeenSHARP and the Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) are ramping up their annual college prep blitz and they say it’s more important than ever.
It would seem so: more than 500 students have registered for the Delaware Goes to College Academy (DGCA) Bootcamp, which began Monday, May 17, and runs through June 4, to give students a jumpstart on the college application process. The program is free and open to all Delaware high school freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and rising seniors.
TeenSHARP Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Atnre Alleyne said that he is not surprised about the substantial interest in DGCA this year because college admissions has become more competitive and more complicated during the pandemic. Even before the pandemic, he said, waiting until the Fall to start getting ready to appl