We went to the same school during first and second grade, and became the best of friends.

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In her first year of teaching second grade at Woodland West Elementary School, Monette turned one of the lowest-performing classes into one of the highest achieving.

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With second-grade math, you can get to the estimated number of wins their absence over the first month of the season will cost the team: It's between one and two.

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To rectify the problem, he's decreed that English be taught in all schools beginning in first grade and computer education in second.

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