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(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) Where did you go to school? Avalon Elementary School. From first grade to eighth grade, everybody went to kindergarten in Stone Harbor when I was in school, and then preschool went to Happy Day. Miss Mary and Miss Ellen ran Happy Day at the Methodist Church when I was little.

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All my siblings went there. That's great. Where was the school at that time? 32nd Street. Okay, so right where it is now.

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Yes, where it is now. It looked a little different. There was a big reading circle out front and a lot of blacktop, and they had a weird little board office. It was like a small building kind of outside the borough building that wasn't attached to the school. And it's, you know, you probably have a unique perspective because now you work at the school.

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So was the character of it very different then, or like have the class sizes changed much? It felt like there were more year-round residents when I was in school. The class sizes were about the same. We've kind of fluctuated. There was a time where the classes were a lot smaller, but now we're kind of building numbers again. So I graduated eighth grade with 12

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kids, and we were pretty consistently around 12 my whole experience at Avalon School. My little brother had a lot more kids in his class, and my sister had more, but my older brother and I were a year apart, and we kind of had the same number. Now the average class at Avalon is about 15, so similar numbers now, but a lot more

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students from off-island than there were when I was in school. Yeah.