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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – It's a milestone time for Central Unified, the archetypal time of schoolhouse and the debut of Jaswant Singh Khalra Elementary (JSK), location of the Royals.
The marque caller field welcomed astir 600 students this morning.
"I'm truly excited today, the hold is over, it's August 13th, the archetypal time of school, and each of our teachers are excited," said Raul Diaz, the main of JSK. "You got to spot the classrooms, there's a batch of things, large things going connected successful there. We cognize however important it is to get the kids excited astir school."
The schoolhouse is the archetypal schoolhouse successful the federation to beryllium named aft a Punjabi quality rights activist.
"A batch of students, earlier coming to schoolhouse here, they did not cognize who helium was," said Jessica Gonzalez, the household outreach liaison. "We person a parkland down the street, and they're like, 'Oh, that's the aforesaid arsenic the park.' But we privation them to cognize that sanction carries a large meaning, and their sanction tin besides transportation a large meaning."
The schoolhouse hopes to further his bequest by embracing halfway values called the 3 R’s: respectful, responsible, and resilient.
"I similar resilient due to the fact that that means similar you don't springiness up and you support trying," said Toni Sandoval, a 6th-grade student. "So conscionable like, don't springiness up and support trying erstwhile you're doing your work."
It's besides the archetypal time for caller Superintendent Dr. Mark Marshall, who brings 13 years of enactment experience, antecedently serving arsenic the superintendent of the Los Banos Unified School District.
"The archetypal extremity is that I privation to perceive and larn astir Central, I'm caller here, truthful I request to get to larn the laic of the land," said Marshall. "There are a batch of bully things happening successful this district, and I privation to physique upon that.”
As students waited for the doorbell to ring, emotions were high.
"I'm a small spot nervous, precise excited, and happy, and yeah, that's astir apt each my emotions close now, " said Anthony Sandoval Jr., who is starting 5th grade.
As the archetypal time of the caller schoolhouse twelvemonth kicks off, unit accidental they are acceptable to marque definite kids and families person everything they request to succeed.
