By Richard Bammer

From Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,” the “seven ages of man” speech refers to the second stage this way: “Then, the whining schoolboy with his satchel/And shining morning face, creeping like snail/Unwillingly to school.”

But while there were few serious whiners, there were plenty of shining faces, in some cases perhaps masking some understandable anxiety, as backpack-toting children with pep in their step and many wearing new clothes marched back into Vacaville Unified classrooms Thursday, the first day of the 2019-20 academic year.

Hundreds of parents and some 965 students of the nearly 13,000 across 19 campuses districtwide showed up at 8:25 a.m. at Markham Elementary to hear welcoming remarks from Principal Jose Bermudez before the first bell.

Source: Shining faces, smiles, some anxiety in a ‘positive learning environment’ – The Reporter