Redondo Union students gathered in the courtyard outside the newly opened Student Services Building on Tuesday morning and greeted one another with hugs, smiles and exclamations of, "We have English together! Awesome!" and "I love your hair!"
Another school year has begun.
Principal Mary Little stationed herself outside the front doors of the cafeteria asking students, "Do you have your class schedule yet?" Little waved those who didn't inside, where help was waiting.
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What's the first day of classes like for the principal of the high school?
"Busy," Little said.
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Busy for everybody—administrators, teachers and students—except the few who decided to smoke cigarettes by their cars instead of attending their first period classes.
At Parras Middle School, students fiddled with combination locks and hustled to their classes, happy when they got to choose where to sit and concerned if a teacher decided to assign seats. At Tulita Elementary School, Danielle Allphin met with first graders and talked with them about "quiet voices" and how happy she was to be their principal.
Supt. Steven Keller, who walked the grounds at the high school Tuesday morning and answered questions from students holding their schedules up for examination, considers the first day of school a big opportunity.
"It's about getting the students engaged from the very first bell," Keller said.
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