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Journal photo by David Rolfe
Kari Lewis, 5, peers around the corner to see what's ahead for her first day of kindergarten at Speas School in Winston-Salem today. Kari and her mother, Traci Lewis, right, wore their matching school uniforns for the first day.
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Published: August 25, 2008
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools opened smoothly this morning, school officials said.
Reports from the school system's 76 schools are still filtering in, officials said.
"We've got the normal things to work out," said Theo Helm, a school system spokesman. "Every year we have some buses that run late.
"That's just one of those things. Inevitably, there are always delays."
Helm spent part of the morning at Reynolds High School, where the day started with a moment of silence in memory of Matt Gfeller, a football player who was severely injured in a football game Friday and died at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center early Sunday.
Gfeller was 15. Some of his teammates spoke this morning at Reynolds.
"They're in a much more somber place than the other schools," Helm said.
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