DALMATIA - Dalmatia Elementary students started chanting Wednesday morning during the school's final assembly inside the gymnasium.
“We are...!” they shouted, followed by “...Line Mountain!”
The phrase is telling, since these students - as well Leck Kill Elementary students – will not be back to their familiar small schools next school year.
Instead, all students in grades kindergarten through fourth will attend classes at Trevorton, where an addition is being constructed. An addition is also being built to the seventh- and eighth-grade wing at the junior/senior high school in Mandata to accommodate all district fifth- and sixth-graders.
At Dalmatia Wednesday morning, teachers prepared a slideshow for students that showed past and present photographs of the school, and photographs of the Trevorton school and the high school in Mandata where they will be attending in the future.
Following the presentation, students paraded around the school one last time with parents and other relatives watching and taking pictures.
More on this emotional day at Dalmatia in Thursday's print, online and e-editions of The News-Item.