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Few problems as Forsyth goes back to school
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Madeline Hansen, a kindergartener at Big Creek Elementary, gets her lunch out of her backpack on Thursday, the first day of the new school year. - photo by Micah Green
FORSYTH COUNTY — The Forsyth County school system welcomed about 42,000 students Thursday as the 2014-15 school year got under way. The morning went smoothly and was a “typical first day of school,” said Jennifer Caracciolo, a spokeswoman for the school district. Part of an average first day of school is traffic, Caracciolo said, and Thursday was no exception.
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How local educators turned this elementary school into a winter wonderland
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On Wednesday morning, Whitlow Elementary School students arrived at school to find that administrators had been transformed into Christmas elves and their schoolyard had become a winter wonderland.
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