Brielle Quigley, a graduating senior of The Peak School, holds onto to her graduation cap as she rides up the Super Bee chairlift with family members Thursday, May 27, at Copper Mountain Resort to receive her diploma. This is the second year The Peak School hosted its graduation ceremony at Copper.
Photo by Jason Connolly /Jason Connolly Photography
Eleven graduates were celebrated Thursday, May 27, during The Peak School’s graduation ceremony at Copper Mountain Resort. Last year, the school held its graduation at the resort as a creative way to celebrate during the pandemic, and the tradition lived on this year.
Photo from Ren Bittner
Like most celebrations this year, Teacher Appreciation Week looked a bit different at Summit County schools, and many students felt a new level of appreciation for their teachers’ work to educate them amid a pandemic.
Cameron Kalaf, a senior at Summit High School, said he doesn’t think students understood what teachers were up against at the beginning of the pandemic.
“The way that they’ve learned and the way they’ve been technically taught to teach, it’s always been face to face,” Kalaf said. “And so I think … we didn’t really understand the situation that COVID and online schooling put them through.”