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Incoming kindergartners comment on preview of riding the bus

Cobb County held a bus ride along for kindergarten and first grade students and their parents today, in preparation for the first day of school on Monday. By Monday, Aug. 7th, more than 700,000 metro Atlanta students will have returned to school. BOB ANDRES /BANDRES@AJC.COM
By Christopher Quinn
July 28, 2017

To introduce incoming kindergarten students to what riding a school bus is like, Cobb County organized a pre-ride Friday morning.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution rode along as students, supportive parents and siblings were picked up and driven to a school, where a lineup of cheerleaders waited to greet and cheer the new kids on the block. The first student stepping off seemed a bit baffled by the reception.

I hope someone told him that the cheerleaders won’t be there Monday, when Cobb becomes the first major metro school district to open its doors.

The kids mostly had one word to describe the first ride. Check it out in the video.

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Christopher Quinn is a writer and editor who has worked for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1999. He writes stories on Veterans Affairs, business including high-tech growth in metro Atlanta, Georgia's $72 billion farm economy, and he oversees assigning and editing news obituaries.

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