When graduation brings isolation - and what we can do about it - Evanston RoundTable

When graduation brings isolation - and what we can do about it - Evanston RoundTable

By Margaret Storey, parent of a student at Park School who is coordinating efforts to develop a day program for the school’s graduates. The last few weeks have been marked by graduations across Evanston. It’s been a time of joy and celebration, mixed with relief and anticipation. For most of our high school seniors and their families, graduation is the long-awaited passage to the “next thing”—a gateway to independence and new possibilities. But …