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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Cole Elementary successful Clovis has had the aforesaid past sanction connected its rotation telephone for 30 years.
The Malcolm household has kept the schoolhouse stocked with each 12 of their children.
The household patriarch, Danny Malcolm, is utilized to listing them off.
“Danny, Matthew, William, Hyrum, Simon, Joseph, Haieh, Lucy, Laura, Dannika, Jodie and Kellie,” helium said.
He and his wife, Monica, person had a precise engaged 37 years of marriage.
“I get 2 questions,” Monica said. “The archetypal question was, ‘Are they each yours?’ And the 2nd question was, 'Do you homeschool?’”
They grew their household successful Clovis, sheltered by the boughs of a ample oak tree.
“When my ma – erstwhile we were buying the house, she said, ‘I don't attraction what the location looks like, I conscionable privation the tree,’” the youngest daughter, Kellie, said.
“It’s go our household tree,” Danny said.
Over the years, though, their household histrion has extended – down the roadworthy to Cole Elementary.
“Come this fall, it volition beryllium 30 years that we've had a pupil astatine the aforesaid simple schoolhouse continuously,” Monica said.
All 12 of the Malcolm children attended the school, and 9 of them person sat successful sixth people teacher Mark Kellner’s class.
“They’re astonishing children, they’re hard workers,” Kellner said. “I person considered it an grant to beryllium capable to enactment with the family.”
His clip with their household is coming to an end. Kellie, the youngest, is successful sixth people and volition soon beforehand to mediate school.
It’s her beingness astatine the schoolhouse that has kept Kellner around. He plans to discontinue erstwhile she leaves.
“We see each different family. We truly do,” Kellner said.
Kellner has had a beforehand enactment spot to ticker each Malcolm kid turn into a contributing subordinate of society.
The Malcolm successful the middle, Joseph, is present attending Fresno State. He looks backmost fondly connected his days astatine Cole Elementary, though.
“While I was astatine Cole, it was breathtaking because, you know, I had my older siblings to look up to. So if they did transverse country, I did transverse country. If they did the play, I did the play,” Joseph said.
Kellner says that, though Joseph could beryllium a spot of a troublemaker, each kid brought truthful overmuch joyousness and excellence to his class.
He attributes their quality to their beardown consciousness of household identity.
“Our household motto is, and thing we ever archer our kids erstwhile we driblet them off, is ‘remember who you are,’” Monica said.
The kids accidental being a Malcolm keeps them rooted, and they’re reminded of those roots erstwhile they beryllium nether the oak tree.
“I cognize that, due to the fact that this is wherever my roots are, this is wherever I privation to stay,” Joseph said.
Although their family’s clip astatine Cole Elementary is coming to an end, their household bequest volition unrecorded on.
They accidental they person six grandchildren already attending the school, and a seventh volition soon articulation them.
So Cole Elementary has galore much years of Malcolms to look guardant to.
