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FL Students Head Back To School: Photo Of The Week
To commemorate back-to-school week, Patch put together a collection of pictures taken by Florida parents and school staff.
FLORIDA — Most of Florida's 67 public school districts began the 2023-24 school year this week. To commemorate the occasion, school districts invited parents, teachers and staff to post back-to-school photos on the school districts' Facebook pages, and were rewarded with an overwhelming number of shots of kids excitedly returning to the classroom. Here is just a sampling of those photos.
The Florida Patch sites publish a collection of Photos of the Week each weekend sent in by readers.
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Superintendent Jason Wysong and Rogers Garden-Bullock Elementary School Principal Michael Escorcia visit with students on the first day of school.
A Sarasota Public Schools bus driver Kristen Jenkins greets kids on her bus returning to school.
During the early-morning hours of Thursday morning, Sarasota Public Schools administrators and staff, including Superintendent Superintendent Terry Connor in the foreground, were waved signs as students arrived.
Some smiling, others wide-eyed with wonder, kindergarteners in Sarasota County pose wearing their "Kindergarten Crew" T-shirts.
A teacher reassures a hesitant student on the first day back to school Friday in Polk County.
Excited parents took selfies with their students to commemorate the occasion.
Assistant Principal Rebecca Britto from Rogers Garden-Bullock Elementary School expresses surprise when a student displays her work.
Hillsborough County teachers went all out to make students feel welcome on the first day back to school.
Students in Hillsborough County Public Schools were greeted with a clap-in on the first day back at school. Among those participating in the clap-in at Potter Elementary School was school board member Henry "Shake" Washington, right, and Tavis Myrick, executive director at Gentlemen's Quest of Tampa Inc.
Hillsborough County students step off the bus to start their first day of the 2023-24 school year Thursday.
At Miami-Dade County Public Schools, friends separated for the summer were excited to reunite.
Pasco County kindergarteners got a head start on the school year when they attended a special orientation last week.
An older sibling walks her younger brother to his classroom on Thursday, the opening of Hillsborough County Public Schools.
A Manatee County kindergartener wear's a crown marking her first successful day at school.
A Hillsborough County kindergartener wears a big grin as he arrives for his first day at public school.
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