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Bye.

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Hi, my name is Yolanda Kempo
Primus.

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Um My Children are in fourth
grade and pre K uh as a parent,

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my experience has been
phenomenal.

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Um The school staff support is
exceptional.

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Um I feel like between from the
principals to the admin staff,

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they are here for us as
families.

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Um their communication is
exceptional.

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I mean, sorry to repeat myself,
but it is, it is exceptional.

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I can reach out to any teacher
staff member and the principals

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at any time to get information
on how my kids are doing.

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And that to me is super
important,

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especially in this day and age.

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Uh My name is Gilbert Cuevas and
I have a grandson here.

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He's in third grade. He's been
in the school here now.

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Uh This will be his fourth year
at Patrick Henry.

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My experiences here with the
school overall has been great uh

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great staff from the top to
bottom, very attentive to the kids,

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very responsive whenever issues
arise and I've never had to wait

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or call again or email.

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My my responses have been really
good here at the school.

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Uh and my grandson, he loves it
here.

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Well, my daughter is in fourth
grade,

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as I mentioned and she's been
here for two years.

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She has had a wonderful
experience um in fourth grade and her

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goal is to make friends and
she's had wonderful experiences with

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um her classmates here.

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She is exposed or has been
exposed to a lot of things that I

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don't think she might have been
exposed to at other schools.

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The school offers programs like
chess and theater, uh biking.

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Um all sorts of after school
programs that the kids can be

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involved in and allows them to
be exposed to things that they

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wouldn't ordinarily be exposed
to my son who is in pre K,

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he's four years old,

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um is also uh now enrolled in a
springboard program which is a

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literacy program.

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So helping to start kids at his
age who are four years old is

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starting to read. So that's very
important to us.

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And I'm so glad that Patrick
Henry provides that program for pre

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K and kindergarten. Yeah, he's,
he's, he loves it.

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He, he just has prospered here.

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He's uh he's made some leaps and
bounds in his educational

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journey, but he's really, really
prospering here.

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He's happy here and I'm happy to
have him here.

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So it's, it's a, it's a win win
situation.

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Like I said, the school is, is
excellent.

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Uh they expect a lot of the
kids, the staff are very,

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very hands on with them and uh
creative with the curriculum.

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Uh the kids here, they love it.
And, and so I,

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I would definitely recommend the
school for any parent

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considering coming to Patrick
Henry without repeating what I

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just mentioned, I would say
it's,

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it's all about feeling like a
family and feeling like I've been

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seen and my family has been seen
from the initial open house

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that they had in person open
house many years ago that I

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attended with my husband to the
virtual open houses.

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I felt seen,

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I felt understood and that's
super important for not just my

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family but for all families.

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Um their communication, school
safety is their top priority.

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So I always feel like my child,

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my Children are being cared for
and looked after.

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Um And lastly, their academic
achievements are exceptional.

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Um The principals are always
touting how well the Children do on

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state exams and in the classroom
and I can see it with my

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Children.

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It shows in everything that they
do and, and all of the,

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the homework and the exams that
they come home with.

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They're excited to be a part of
the family and the community

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here, Patrick Henry.

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And we're excited to be a part
of the Patrick Henry family as

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well.