BACK-TO-SCHOOL BUSTLE

Whether excited or depressed, most students visited school supplies stores before classes started. This one was at Target.

Beverly Essner, left, a learning disabilities teacher aide, and Dava Moore, a learning disabilities teacher, had schoolyard duties Monday morning at May Greene Elementary. Some students showed up nearly an hour early for class.

Lionel Dixon, 11, a student at Franklin Elementary, boarded the bus.

A banner in the Cape Girardeau Central High School basement welcomed sophomores for their first year at the school.