Brooklyn public schools welcome students for new year
Brandishing backpacks full of new notebooks, crayons and otherclassroom essentials, Brooklyn students headed back to school onThursday, September 8, for the first day of classes across thecity’s public school system.
After days of rain, the skies emitted only a drowsy drizzle,which stopped in time for the children – some eager, someapprehensive – to enter the hallowed halls of learning, meet theirnew teachers, and catch up with old friends.
The scene was replayed with variations across Bay Ridge,Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, Dyker Heights and Sunset Park, as parentskissed their progeny goodbye before urging them across the school’sthreshold., sometimes stopping to take a few quick snapshotsfirst.