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Marysville students return to school BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
MARYSVILLE — The first day of the 2012-13 school year at the Marysville School District saw enrollment figures holding relatively steady while a few new wrinkles entered the classrooms. According to Jodi Runyon, executive assistant to the superintendent, the counts of 2,967 high school students and 2,495 middle school students on Wednesday, Sept. 5, were about the same as the first day of the 2011-12 school year, while the 4,069 non-kindergarten elementary school students who were counted that day were slightly down from last year. “The first four days of the school year we physically count every child in a seat,” said Runyon, who expressed enthusiasm for the programs that made their debut in the district this year, from the iPads in the classrooms of the 10th Street Middle School to the new teacher evaluation system in which several instructors are participating. Totem Middle School saw a number of first-time students checking in before the 7:45 a.m. bell on Wednesday,
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including seventh-grader Mya Tupper, who recently moved from Tacoma. “There’s no uniforms here, so we’re pretty stoked about that,” said Tupper’s mom Lisa. “It’s great to see these kids able to express themselves.” Although the Tuppers were preparing for a new school year at a new school, their routine was familiar to many veteran Marysville School District families, who went to bed early and laid out their clothes the night before — both parents and kids alike. “You want to dress decently so you don’t embarrass your kids,” Lisa Tupper said. “First impressions are important.” “I made sure to dress cute,” said Mya Tupper, whose primary priorities for her first day were to get her class schedule down pat and make new friends. While Heidi McGrath is a longtime Marysville parent, sixth grade at Totem marked a significant transition for her son, Ashton Whitney-Bajema, who had attended the Marysville Cooperative Education Program for the previous four years. SEE STUDENTS, PAGE 2
‘Food For Thought’ helps students BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Preschooler Alyssa Armstrong, left, and mom Angie sort out the school supplies for Alyssa’s sister Tiffany (not pictured), during the first day of school at Sunnyside Elementary.
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Amy Howell, coordinator of the Marysville Community Food Bank’s ‘Food For Thought’ program, sorts through the meal ingredients which will be dispensed to Marysville students in need.
MARYSVILLE — It began near the end of the last school year with 20 grade school students, but by the end of this school year the coordinators of the “Food For Thought” program, courtesy of the Marysville Community Food Bank, hope to be serving four times that number of students. Marysville Community Food Bank Director Dell Deierling credited area college student Charlene Greene with taking “Food For Thought” from a list of ideas and turning it into
reality. “The idea came about when I was invited to a kindergarten orientation for parents and children, and some of the principals told me that they knew a few of their kids weren’t getting meals between when they went home in the afternoon and when they came back to school the next morning.” Deierling noted that the proposed program met with much interest by Marysville school staff members and almost immediate approval by the Marysville Community
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