Back to school at: Kindezi and Teasley Elementary

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Back to school at: Kindezi and Teasley Elementary

Back to school at: Kindezi and Teasley Elementary

Bukhari Nuriddin takes his son Sam, 10, to school. Monday, August 3, was the first day of school at the new Kindezi School campus in Atlanta.

The charter school startup is taking the place of charter school that was shuttered this summer after five years of failure.

The Kindezi students' first order of business was getting a tour of the school and learning procedures.

Stephanie Reaves' Kindergarten class plays a game as they introduce themselves.

Principal Gilberte Pascal high fives students as they tour the school and learn procedures. The new operator, who met with success at the first Kindezi campus across town, has high hopes for this new elementary school, near a homeless shelter and a trashed park in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward.

Kindergarten students at Teasley Elementary School in Smyrna get in the swing of things on the first day of school Monday, August 3.

Lindsay Couvillion, a second grade teacher at Teasley Elementary leads her class in the Pledge of Allegiance on the first day of school.

Teasley Elementary Principal Leslie Mansfield greets first grader Finley Boyd and Boyd's mother Debbie.

Monday was the first day of school for Cobb County students.

Kindergartener Nikil Ramkumar looks for a spot to hang his bookbag.

Miles Johnson is escorted to to his first day of school at Teasley Elementary by his parents Shizuko Shearl and Ronald Johnson.

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Bukhari Nuriddin takes his son Sam, 10, to school. Monday, August 3, was the first day of school at the new Kindezi School campus in Atlanta.

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