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A new year dawns
Open houses help to ease early jitters
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Melih Bektas hugs brother Zeynep as they walk into Melih’s kindergarten classroom for the first time at Daves Creek Elementary during open house Tuesday. - photo by Jim Dean
As school starts today in Forsyth County, the system’s youngest students came prepared following open house events at its various elementary schools Tuesday.There were many questions, as well as skipping and holding of parents’ hands, as rising kindergarteners got a first look at their new home away from home, Daves Creek Elementary. “She rode the bus for the first time. She’s never done that,” said Malyssa Munroe of her daughter Kayla.