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hi

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I'm TOA McKinney the principal here at midseason

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Prescott and there's so many reasons why our

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school is unique a really cool fact about our school it's

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like in the absolute

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center of La we're like at the very top I

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love the community of the school I like how it's really small

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you can know all the families I love that it's an

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open campus I love that you come and it kind of almost feels like a

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college quad where you know you see all the

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students from all different grade levels here hanging

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out all the kids know all the other teachers names they have friends

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in other classes or siblings or their siblings friends

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so it's nice to see them

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you know say hi to each other I think more than anything it's

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a family and I tell everybody that I

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meet that it's a family it's a small

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school and everybody works together as

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a team to make sure that the kids most

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importantly the kids are learning something new

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right we have a very diverse group of

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students who attend our school they're very active they're

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Lively they love meeting new

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people they love having wonderful conversations with

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1 another and they get along very well

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with their teachers and other peers

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when

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we first came onto this campus and walked

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around uh with the principal to

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see what was what was here I was blown

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away by The Greenery I

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like the grass because it has so much flour

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for the spring I really love the

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greenery around the school we have a tree

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that's like a 100 years old that's protected

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the history is very intriguing it's a little bit

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more unique of a compass this used to be an

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orphanage many many many many many

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many many years ago it's gone through many iterations

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and we also know that Ron

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Prescott is who we named our school after

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he actually formed the first Magnet

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School in LAUSD it was like different than

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any other school I've seen I was used to a lot more cement

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a lot more you know having to put planters out

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here we have trees everywhere we have green

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everywhere we now have a beautiful um

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Native California plant garden and

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when we drive up the hill that's what we get to see in

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the morning and I walk around I would probably

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but look this for squirrels

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because there's always squirrels

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somewhere in this part the kids have

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and then there's

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another area that you can have

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your like that's a little beautiful little break that

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they get to have in the day when they get to go out and do their Garden class

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and their hands are in the dirt and they're

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learning where their food comes from and they're

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seeing it grow over time and then they

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get to go out and pick it it's amazing

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and then like just be yourself express

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yourself as a plant cuz you know they have lives

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they have

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feelings too there's California puppies

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we're going corn we're going squash

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butternut squash juicy an abundant

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of greenery we have a micro Forest

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over here we're not always in the classroom there's gardening

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and music we

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are a magnet school uh that focuses on Sciences

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but we also have a very diverse community

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so with that comes students that are

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diverse and have different interests so there's all

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of these different auxiliary courses that help them

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to expand and learn in different ways

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so I think that's what also creates a Buy

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in with the kids good

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Amelia my favorite

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guessing about my teacher is that she's

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kind and she's and she's

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helpful well they have some

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of the nicest teachers I'm going to say that the

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teachers here give their all every day I've

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personally seen teachers interact with 1 another

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by taking the initiative to go and support another new

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teacher they support them with creating their lesson

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plans preparing their classrooms and

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just getting ready to serve their students on a day-to-day basis

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this is 1 of the most collaborative steps

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that I've ever been a part of I think teachers are really will

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willing to jump in and give their ideas and

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share resources with 1 another which I

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really appreciate I think the kids like that it's

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a small environment is cozy and the

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teachers are very personable

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I love the teachers they're just so kind and

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hearing and when you're like feeling down they just

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yeah I

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like class because it's like real colorful

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yeah it has a lot of positive

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energy um a lot of parents also feel comfortable

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uh to talk to teachers

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who are not their kids teachers at the moment I know so

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many different families even if the kids are not all my

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classrooms now and once again that comes from the energy

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that the teachers are given a lot of these

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schools that can feel like every teacher is in Ireland but

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I feel like it's really a team here

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here we're very close as a staff and

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teacher and administration and we really love

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the parent involvement so parents

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see that as a sense of we belong

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and we want to give as much as we can what

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parents are very very knowledgeable of

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what the needs are for the students and they come

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in and they're very proactive I'm very impressed on

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how our parents show up every day to support the

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principal as well as the teachers we were

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delighted to have a

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wonderful Community a beautiful group

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parents having the PTO has allowed

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like the parents to become friends exactly

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yeah it's really nice we just pop into the parent Center whenever

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you want it's just like a very welcoming campus

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so it's just a really nice to have that community

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when you come

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to the event here at Mid City you really

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feel like you're a part of the

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school I've never been at a campus where

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there was open space during

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all of our events like that Hispanic Heritage Month

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and Black History Month Festival the kids get to watch each other

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there and cheer each other on my high level for the year for this

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past year was the Halloween part

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I

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love how everything was so detailed you know it was

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meant for the kids like everybody participated I

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really like that but for the kids it is such a beautiful

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Gathering it's like a reunion of sorts

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right like when we get together with the family you get

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together with our our school family at these events it's

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what brings us together and

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that's what I love the most about this school

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is that we really as

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parents of the PTO as staff and

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teachers who really work together to bring that

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that fun and that joy and it's all

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about teamwork because it's all about the kids

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for me it's the quality of Education the

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small class sizes it's very

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very important um and also just to support um

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I I really do feel supported by the staff

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here as well there's so many layers to this little school

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it's very complex but it's beautifully

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complex and I love that about this city

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we have only 5 grade levels here first

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that's great and it makes it a very small

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community feel for students we

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also feed into secondary school called

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laces they get to be with

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their friends not here just for years

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but transition over to the

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next milestone for next 7

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years also so they become a

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family you can apply through LAUSD

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on a website with

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each horses I push the students to

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come to school every day and know that our

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School Creed is every minute counts and teachers

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reiterate that same statement to students every day so

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that everyone pushes every student here every day

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to be their best so come on over we want

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to invite you to be a part of our family here at Mid

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Cities Prescott