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Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Now that we’ve had a few weeks to settle into the school year, I thought I would write to say how much I’m enjoying working with your children, watching them grow and learn and change. There’s a restless kind of beauty to these first few days of a school year; haircuts are admired, playground friendships reignite, little ones turtle along with too-big

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