New year starts strong: Teachers, staff welcome students as the school year gets under way

Superintendent Beverley Levine chats with a student at Oglethorpe County Primary School on the first day of the school year. (LANDEN TODD/THE OGLETHORPE ECHO)
Superintendent Beverley Levine chats with a student at Oglethorpe County Primary School on the first day of the school year. (LANDEN TODD/THE OGLETHORPE ECHO)

Teachers in matching T-shirts and smiles lined the decorated halls. Parents arranged their students for pictures before walking them to their classes. Buses and cars eased through the wait to drop off…