In her first year of teaching second grade at Woodland West Elementary School, Monette turned one of the lowest-performing classes into one of the highest achieving.

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The 1966 song was understood to be a favourite of 27-year-old Victoria Soto, a first-grade teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

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"I'm in a car running from the tornado, " said Amy Sharp, who last week pulled her fourth-grade daughter from the Plaza Towers Elementary School as a storm approached with 210 mph winds.

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Lindsey Zolp, for instance, dreamed of being an elementary school teacher since third grade.

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Alfredo Perez was shot in the head in front of his fifth grade class when gunfire erupted outside Figueroa Elementary School Thursday morning.

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His mother, Susan Amini, recalls the day he came home from Somerset Elementary School in the third grade and complained about his recess teacher.

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Kindergarten, elementary school -- I don't know what you guys call it -- before eighth grade.

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Freezing, in fact the steam leaks from his mouth and reminds him of an elementary school experiment with dry ice, which reminds him of Mr. Harlow, his fifth-grade teacher.

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