Lots of noise. All of us. The police were called when the shots came, and continued. But they come to school this morning and rush to surround their principal and tell her of the happenings of the night. Stability is important to them.
Cannons is their fortress.
The school serves primarily lower middle-class, rural children. The school population is diverse, both in skills the children possess when they walk through the doors and the language and customs of their native countries. Cannons Elementary School, originally constructed in 1939 for fewer than 100 students, moved into a new facility in 1995. A collaborative group, representing a cross-section of the population, worked on design and features for five years. A theatre for musical and dramatic productions, an art gallery featuring a different artist each month, and a state of the art computer infrastructure that includes a Local Area Network connected to the district Wide Area Network were included.