First School Visits:Tuesday, April 21: Mrs McLeay came with me for my first school visits today. We hired a rental car and made our way to Keene, a small town northwest of Cleburne where we had fun meeting three special people and looking through two amazing schools.
I had interviews with the School Superintendent, the person who manages a group of schools, and then interviewed the principal of Keen Elementary School (the photo to the right is the main entrance) and Keene Junior High School. The Superintendent appraises all the Principals, which is what my interviews were about.
There are 480 children at the elementary school, in 24 classrooms with an average class size of 20 - I am sure we would all love this at Riverview!
There is also a Keene High School, and all the sports trams in all three schools are called the "Keene Chargers." The photo to the left is the elementary (primary) school gymnasium.
The elementary school also has specialist teachers for P.E., Music, Art, Computer Studies, Learning Assistance and for Counselling.
Part of me feels a little envious of all these things, but what I really think is that Riverview School has fantastic teachers who do all of these things in their own classrooms.
One other interesting fact that I found surprising is that about 20% of the students come from the Marshall Islands. You might like to find these Islands on a map. I don't know why so many have moved to this town in Texas, but there certainly are a lot of them.
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