Schools
EASD Students Head Back to School
Eager parents and students head back to start the 2011-12 school year.
Lisa Zaleski sent another one of her daughters off to school Tuesday.
It was the first day of kindergarten atl in Forks Township for one of her four daughters and Zaleski was already off to a rough start. They missed the school bus.
"But I was glad to take her myself," she said. "I was nervous, happy and excited for her. It's going to be a really good experience."
After a one-day delay due to , schools opened in the Tuesday.
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Just before 8:30 a.m., the parking lot of the Shawnee school started seeing some action. School personnel put out orange cones to block off a section where parents dropped off their children. Teachers and administrators lined up to greet students as they came off buses with a hello and some cheers when they started arriving just before 9am.
Some children -- and parents -- were excited to get going, too.
Sally Zhao and her son, Timmy, a 7-year-old starting second grade, were the first ones in the parking lot. They snapped photos and sat on a step waiting for the doors to open.
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"We couldn't wait to get here," she said. "We didn't want to be late."
Vivia Piedrahipa was so worried that she went to the school even though she put her son, Danny, on the bus for his first day of kindergarten.
"I wanted to see him come off the bus," she said. "I'm excited that he's going to school. He couldn't wait, but I'm a nervous mother."
Joan Loaiza was one of the first arrivals. She snapped a picture of her daughter, Jayden, 7, after they got out of the car.
"She was excited, chomping at the bit," Loaiza said.
Loaiza said she didn't mind that Hurricane Irene had delayed school's opening a day. She was having trouble getting paperwork for her daughter's peanut allergy and was concerned that she would have missed the first day of school.
Adam Pysher, 9, who was entering fourth grade today, wasn't too nervous. He said, though, that he didn't get much sleep.
"I got up at 6:30am," he said.
His mother was excited, too.
"The children have some great opportunities," she said.
But there was one thing that most parents and children will agree to disagree on, something that Adam summed up best.
"The summer went by too fast," he said.