Year-round school starts with anticipation, jitters
SUN PHOTO BY BRENDA BARBOSA
A parent looks for his son's classroom assignment on the first day of school at East Elementary School Wednesday.
SUN PHOTO BY BRENDA BARBOSA
East Elementary School in Punta Gorda welcomes back its students on the first day of school Wednesday.
SUN PHOTO BY BRENDA BARBOSA
Marcela Vuelta walks her 5-year-old son to his kindergarten classroom on the first day of school Wednesday at East Elementary School in Punta Gorda. The school is one of two in town that is on a year-round calendar.
PUNTA GORDA — The night before his first day of kindergarten, Marcela Vuelta’s son could barely sleep.
“He kept asking me, ‘How many more minutes, Mommy? Is it time to go to school yet?’” the Punta Gorda resident said with a smile. “He was very excited.”
