MBUSD welcomes youngest students back to campus
In-person learning began for the youngest students at Pennekamp Elementary and other MBUSD elementary schools on Tuesday. Photo courtesy MBUSD Tuesday was the first day of school at Pennekamp Elementary, and Principal Karina Gerger noticed something was very different than years past. It wasn’t the fact that all the kids wore masks, though of course that was different. It wasn’t even the plexiglass-equipped desks and the handwashing stations in every classroom, though that too was something brand new. What really struck Gerger was the fact that not a single kindergartner cried on this, the very first day of school many of them had ever experienced — at least, in an actual classroom. And the reason for the lack of tears was because they’d seen their teachers many times before, at home, on their computers, on Zoom. “We had our TK, or transitional kindergarten, and kindergarten students were here for the first time, and I and I have to say they were so brave,” Gerger said. “Because many times we have kindergarteners who are nervous or cry or hang on mom and dad the first day. And we didn’t have that. The kindergartners and TK students were just so excited to be on campus and see…
Read this story on easyreadernews.com