In Conversation With
Keystone recently graduated its first cohort of students last of us, we went into Grade 9 with Grades 10, 11, and
academic year, the Class of 2018. Compared to last year’s 12 ahead of us. For that first class, in Grade 9 they
graduating class, what distinctive characteristics define were the oldest, and in Grade 10 they were the
the Class of 2019 and how do you think their Keystone oldest, and in Grade 11 they were the oldest, so a lot
experience will leave an impact on our community and the was expected of them.
world at large?
For the Class of 2019, they’ve been in the shadows
Rachael: For this group, I honestly can’t identify a
of that group, but that has also freed them up
specific of characteristics. I think one of the chal- because they’ve heard all the talk about leading
lenges for them, being the second class to come and the expectations, but they haven’t felt the
through the school, is that the first graduating pressure of it. In a lot of ways, the kids in this group
class were the leaders of the school. That was a have taken on leadership more naturally and more
very unusual reality for the Class of 2018. For most readily than the first class did. The first class had to
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