LARGO, Fla. (WFLA) — From following a hot trend of combining K-8 schools to welcoming students back to schools that suffered major hurricane damage last year, Pinellas County School Superintendent Kevin Hendrick is excited to get back to learning.
Hendrick was once himself a student at Walsingham Elementary. He tells us expanding it to the new Walsingham Oaks K-8 is a great asset for the community.
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“Every time there’s a change of school where it’s middle school or high school, it creates this nervousness, this anxiety, and so the fewer of those that you can have, the better,” Hendrick said. “This is an opportunity for us to do it. It’s really our first neighborhood K-8; all the others have been magnets.”
He said the innovative zoned K-8 model allows parents to remain more involved…