With some elated and some hesitant, students return to classrooms in Kitsap districts Jessie Darland, Kitsap Sun
The first day of in-person learning at Esquire Hills Elementary in East Bremerton began with kindergarteners crying as their parents dropped them off for the first time, teachers introducing themselves to students they ve seen online over the last several months, and at least one child that exclaimed, “This is the best day of my life!”
In some ways, Monday was just like any other first day of school.
At Esquire Hills, 36 pre-k, kindergarteners, and first-grade students arrived by bus, car, or on foot to their school on Monday morning. That group was dismissed in the late morning and staff prepared for an afternoon cohort. Students who returned to the classroom on Monday in the Central Kitsap School District will go to school either in the morning or afternoon every day of the week but Wednesdays, when learning will continue remotely.