The socially-distanced ceremony was an unprecedented event for the Mississippi high school graduates – and a moving celebration of their hard-earned achievements
As an early summer sun beat down over a brick school building, red sequins on an outdoor stage rippled in the gentle breeze and Dr James Henderson took a minute to adjust his robe and facemask in the reflection of a car mirror.
Henderson, superintendent of Holmes County Consolidated school district in the Mississippi delta, approached the lectern in front of a line of cars daubed in balloons and handwritten messages of support.
Continue reading…The socially-distanced ceremony was an unprecedented event for the Mississippi high school graduates – and a moving celebration of their hard-earned achievementsAs an early summer sun beat down over a brick school building, red sequins on an outdoor stage rippled in the gentle breeze and Dr James Henderson took a minute to adjust his robe and facemask in the reflection of a car mirror.Henderson, superintendent of Holmes County Consolidated school district in the Mississippi delta, approached the lectern in front of a line of cars daubed in balloons and handwritten messages of support. Continue reading…