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'We're here to stay'

The new two-story Marco Island Charter Middle School on Trinidad Avenue replaces the last nine years of students going to school in portable classrooms, and having to deal with the elements as they walked outside from class to class.

Photo by GREG KAHN, Daily News

The new two-story Marco Island Charter Middle School on Trinidad Avenue replaces the last nine years of students going to school in portable classrooms, and having to deal with the elements as they walked outside from class to class.

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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.
  • The new two-story Marco Island Charter Middle School on Trinidad Avenue replaces the last nine years of students going to school in portable classrooms, and having to deal with the elements as they walked outside from class to class.
  • Cathy Vergo, left, office manager, and Cedar Kraus, coordinator of network technology, walk down the main stairway at Marco Island Charter Middle School on Friday.
  • Karen Raymond, left, vocal music teacher at the new Marco Island Charter Middle School, dances while watching a how-to video projected on a white board at the school on Friday. Teachers were getting familiar with the new Mimio interactive white boards that is installed in every classroom at the school. Raymond was excited to use the new technology with her class. 'It just makes lessons come to life,' Raymond said.
  • Chuck Ezelle pulls data lines through the ceiling in the Library at Marco Island Charter Middle School on Friday as the school preps to open on Monday.
  • Dennis D'Ambrosio, band, guitar and music teacher, wheels guitar textbooks into one of the three classrooms he teaches in at Marco Island Charter Middle School on Friday.

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