CSF featured in Crosscut story on class of 2021
CSF College Prep Advisor Tremaine Frazier with her students at Auburn High School.
A reporter for the online newspaper Crosscut recently spoke with the College Success Foundation team for a story on the high school class of 2021. The story focuses on the resilience it took for these students to complete their last year of high school in the midst of the pandemic and change.
The reporter interviewed College Success Foundation’s Tremaine Frazier who has been the College Prep Advisor at Auburn High School for five years. She is a shining example of how CSF’s advisors, and educators at large, have had to constantly adapt to support students.
As Tremaine shares, these events not only added new uncertainties and concerns to school, but also exacerbated existing ones.
“You know, we’ve always seen that insecurity of food and lack of housing but I think the biggest thing that I’ve noticed this year was students’ mental health. That, I think, was not new to us, but just in the rates and the depth that it started happening,” she says.
Tremaine points out what many of our CSF advisors have seen this year. “This class really has just that sense of grit,” she says. “Grit, passion and perseverance … just taking ownership of their situations and making the best out of what the situation was given to them.”
Read the full Crosscut story: Washington’s class of 2021 graduates with a degree in resilience.