WILDFIRE FALLOUT: Mira Costa High School welcomes 125 new students
by Mark McDermott Pacific Palisades was still in flames when the calls started coming. Within days, some of the town’s young residents began arriving on Manhattan Beach Unified School District campuses. As the fires finally died out, more kept arriving, especially to Mira Costa High School, where on one day alone last week 56 new students arrived. Costa students could not help but see the almost otherworldly expressions on the faces of their suddenly new classmates, looks that said, “Where are we? How are we going to do this?” From the very first day the fire-affected kids began arriving, MCHS Principal Jennifer Huynh found another group of kids waiting for her even before the school day had commenced. They were members of the Link Crew, the students who at the beginning of the year give freshman and other new students campus tours, and they wanted to help. “They said, ‘Well, we’d love to provide tours to these incoming students to just help them feel welcome to the campus,’” Huynh said. “I’d say that first day, I was greeted at the office with maybe like 20 to 25 Link Crew leaders ready to take individual tours. It was awesome. Every day, actually, we had Link Crew leaders in the…
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