American students forgo trip to help an island during the pandemic

Islesboro Central School seniors preparing to toss their mortarboards to celebrate their graduation. The students were eyeing an overseas trip but instead decided to donate part of the money to help out neighbours who were affected by the pandemic. Photo: Melissa Burns/AP

Students from a Maine island high school in the United States have seen the world on senior class trips – the Eiffel Tower, Iceland’s volcanos, Norway’s fjords, the canals of Italy, the tropical beaches of Panama.

This year, members of Islesboro Central School’s Class of 2021 – all 13 of them – were eyeing a trip to Greece, or maybe South Korea. But they wound up going nowhere.