'We're here to stay'

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Rachel Pascoe, 11, left, watches her mother Annette, right, as she peers into a classroom at the new Marco Island Charter Middle School on Friday during an open house. Rachel, who had just six students in her fifth-grade class last year at Grace Community School, admitted she wasnervous about the switch to the new school, which expects to have more than 400 students.