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August 30, 2007

First Day Of School
 
It's back to papers, back to books, back to teachers' discerning looks as Almaden school children went back to school on Aug. 24 for the 2007-08 school year.
Father Steven Dyson speaks to his son Spencer before the start of the school day. Spencer is a first grader this year. Photos by Dan Miranda
Crossing guard and school parent Lillian Wong helps Kieu Trong and her 5 year-old daughter Kaylynn cross the street for the first day of School at Simonds Elementary School on Grapevine way in San Jose. Kaylynn is a first grader this year.
Sporting a green “Mohawk” six-year-old Jack and his mother Colette Costello walk into his first grade classroom on the first day of school.
New backpacks, new crayons and making new friends were all part of the landscape as students bid good bye to the summer of 2007 and hello to another year of learning.
Maryan and Borna Ebadat, 6, cross the street with the the help of crossing guard Lillian Wong on the first day of a new school year at Simonds Elementary School. Photos by Dan Miranda
 

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