Fresh faces adjust to Floyd T. Binns
Staff Photo,Vincent Vala
Sixth-grade teacher Sharon Lam passes the trash can in the Floyd T. Binns Middle School cafeteria during lunchtime Wednesday.
Wednesday wasn’t just the first day of school; it was the first day of middle school for area sixth graders, which means one thing: lockers.
Many Floyd T. Binns sixth graders struggled to solve the mystery of the elusive locker combination, while others opened their new cubbies with ease.
“First it only took me once,” said sixth grader Kara Peters, 11. “But then it took me a million times.”
English teacher Lindsay McFarland said the overall adjustment to middle school left most students “really quiet.”
“I think they’re a little scared,” McFarland said.
Culpeper native and Star-Exponent columnist Worth Richardson also experienced his first day of school; he left a career in finance to teach sixth grade U.S. History at Binns.
“It’s an adjustment; give me Wall Street any day over this,” Richardson joked. “But the kids are awesome. I couldn’t be more happy with the kids.”
And on a day when many students were probably nervous about transitioning from elementary to middle school, one student didn’t seem to mind.
“I didn’t really care,” said sixth grader Trevor White, 10. “I think my mom was more nervous than I was.”
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