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hallway and greets more students in elementary
classes where, despite recent funding cutbacks, the
teacher-student ratio is small.
"When you've got that one-on-one environment,
it tremendously benefits the students," Smith says
as she passes a row of brown-bag owls bearing
the names of each child in one class. "I'd put our
kindergarten up against anyone's. They do a
wonderful job with these kids."
Each hallway includes bulletin boards with tips
for safely moving from class to class, visiting the
restrooms, geing along with others and similar
etiquee messages. Overhead widescreen TVs
broadcast continuous notices and a Picture of the
Day, compiled by the Future Business Leaders of
America Club.
All students in first-year Principal Curtis Moorer's
school are furnished their own Chromebook
laptop computer. Across from a large trophy case
in the center of the school stands the circular,
glass Internet Café with 10 computer stations.
The names of all honor roll students are wrien
Assistant Principal Cynthia Smith chats with 10th-grader David Harris in hallway.
Students in Bonita Thomas's kindergarten class
raise hands to answer math questions.
