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MARCE HERZ students graduate

By Brandon Bringhurst, Principal

The end of the 2022-2023 school year marks the completion of our third year of operation. As I reflect back on these three years, I am very proud of what we have done. Just before Spring Break of 2020, we heard about something called COVID and some schools started closing. Little did we know that WCSD, along with most schools in the country, would close for the remainder of the year. Marce Herz Middle School was not open at the time, but I fully anticipated things would be back to normal by the time we opened in August. As we know, that certainly was not the case.

We welcomed our first group of students in August of 2020. Not only were they experiencing Marce Herz Middle School for the first time, but they were also experiencing school in the midst of a pandemic, which was drastically different than what school was like before. The experience was even more daunting for our 6th graders. This was their first exposure to middle school. The transition to middle school is one of the most challenging transitions a young person can face, and they were doing it devoid of the normal school routines. No open house, no sports, no assemblies, no

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