Happy to be back
Ah, the smell of freshly sharpened No. 2 pencils.
Few other scents say "first day of school" quite as distinctly.
These days, of course, the first day of school is just as likely to include a graphing calculator and a notebook computer.
And that's before they get to high school.
A flood of children and teenagers are returning from summer vacation this month to the classrooms they'll call home for the next nine months.
Principal Sandra Dressler spent her first day going to each and every class at Park View Elementary School in Lombard.
"My goal always is that 100 percent of our kids have to have a smile on their face when they come in the door and we reached it," she said. "There was not a sad face in the building."
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