Luzea, 10, sat beside her sister Vega, 7, under a shady tree outside the Bobby Joe Hill PK-8 STEAM Academy on the last few days of their summer break.
On Monday, they will enter the unfamiliar halls of the combined elementary and middle school because their previous campus, Newman Elementary, was shuttered when the last school year ended.
Their father, Louie Sublasky, was distraught when he first found out the El Paso Independent School District planned to close the nearly 70-year-old Northeast school…