Both children attended White Pine School, which teaches students from kindergarten through eighth grade, Principal Bill Walker said.
"We thought maybe it was too early for the ceremony," said Hiroko Sugawara, the ninth-grade principal.
I got a phone call at 9 30 AM; my eighth-grade principal actually called me up, and she was like, "I'm on my way out the door, right now".
The ceremonies for sixth and ninth-graders at Hashikami were supposed to take place last week, and the ninth-grade principal told the New York Times he had reservations about holding graduation rites.
Along with a letter grade, principals will receive a separate assessment of whether their school is "well developed," "proficient" or "undeveloped," the product of an evaluation by an outside consultant, Cambridge Education, that conducted interviews in schools in the past year.
The other grades, the principal said in a letter sent home to parents, would stay home from tomorrow on to allow the packing to proceed.
This is considered the career grade and is divided into two stages--low Grade Bs (senior biochemists), and high Grade Bs, (principal biochemists).
The photo of Angela Merkel, with her pudgy smile, makes the German chancellor look like a grade-school principal.
Tall and bespectacled, he had a baritone voice and the unassuming look of a grade-school principal.
At the 650-pupil P.S. 29, covering kindergarten through grade 6, Principal Peggy Miller said scores on standardized math and reading tests were above city and state averages.
