At the end of August, more than 90,000 elementary and secondary students returned to schools in the Archdiocese of Chicago. We captured a few moments from those exciting first days of school for Catholic New World readers.
First-grade student Lester Fletcher is anxious to answer a question during the second week of school at St. Dorothy School, 7740 S. Eberhart Ave., on Aug. 31.
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