Some Woodhill Elementary School students rode to school on the bus with their Assistant Principal Whitney Hill, who was helping a new bus driver on their route.

Others ran up and hugged Principal Jaime Wallace at the school’s entrance, meeting her for the first time since she was transferred to Woodhill from Brookside Elementary School. All students were welcomed on the first day of the 2025-26 school year by Woodhill staff and community partners like volunteers with 101 Black Men for Highland.

According to Wallace, the first day of school is all about relationships and procedures.

On the first day, children are forming relationships with their teachers, peers and school administration.

An important part of the process in forming those relationships is, “showing the kids that they were

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