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Alena Tyler, 7, and Anna Fitzgerald, 7, turn the corner in a football relay race student teams for USC against UCLA, at McKinley Elementary School in Burbank on Monday, November 19, 2012. (Tim Berger/Staff photographer / November 20, 2012) |
McKinley Elementary students on Monday competed against each other as either USC or UCLA patriots during the school’s annual Rivalry Day, capping a month college-related activities.
At the start of November, students wore logos of any college they chose and made pennants of the campuses they want to attend.
This week, fifth-graders will visit UCLA on a field trip.
By the end of the year, McKinley administrators will award a college scholarship to a John Burroughs senior who attended the elementary school.
“If children start thinking about going to college in elementary school, they see it as a reality — as something they can actually do,” said parent Jenny Harris.
The college-bound student will then return to McKinley to accept the award and tell current elementary students about their college plans.
-- Kelly Corrigan, Times Community News
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