Frontier Primary School Yearbook (often coinciding with significant milestones like the school's 10th Anniversary Special Edition
AUTOGRAPHS & MEMORIES
Local parents have demanded the page be redacted. The school board held a four-hour emergency meeting last Tuesday. The result: a 3-2 vote to keep the page. “This is history,” said board member Linda Crenshaw. “And history is not always comfortable.” frontier primary school yearbook exclusive
There are no cliques here. The quarterback (a lanky 8th grader named Dustin) sits next to the girl who reads manga during lunch (a 5th grader named Priya). There is no one else to sit next to. “This is history,” said board member Linda Crenshaw
In three pages of elegant, cursive script, Mr. Vance describes the school as a living organism. He writes about the pencil marks on the doorframe of Room 12 (measuring the growth of 1,200 children over 50 years). He recounts the night the boiler exploded in 1985 and how teachers formed a human chain to carry sleeping kindergarteners to the gym. He ends with a sentence that has become the motto of this year’s edition: “A school is not a building. It is a pile of stories that refuse to die.” There is no one else to sit next to
Vibrant photo spreads in the yearbook capture moments of joy and teamwork across all levels:
Midge closes her copy. She presses her palm flat on the cover. The spiral binding digs into her skin.