For Jersey City parents and young students, a huge sigh of relief on ‘first day’ of school
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
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JERSEY CITY – The night before Dwayne Redmon returned to School 20 for the first time in 402 days, he couldn’t stay asleep. He woke up thinking about school, he said.
“He was up at 4:30,” his grandmother Renee Peterson said. “He got anxiety today. Yesterday and today.”
Clutching his grandmother’s hand,
the 8-year-old was one of the first students to arrive at School 20 in the morning.
Soon, the rest began to arrive. Music started blasting, and a dancing dolphin, the school’s mascot,