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World Language Academy 5th-graders headed back to elementary campus
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Chef Giovanna Garcia works with a class of World Language Academy fifth-graders Monday, March 5, 2018, during culinary class. Hall County Schools is planning to move fifth-graders back to WLA elementary campus in Chestnut Mountain. They are currently at the middle school campus of WLA on Poplar Springs Road. - photo by Scott Rogers
Hall County school officials are looking to reverse a lingering result of the Great Recession by bringing fifth-grade World Language Academy students back into an elementary school environment this fall. During the worst of the economic downturn — when housing markets were bursting and banks collapsing — school officials paired World Language Academy fifth-graders with the sixth through eighth-grade program located within the Academies of Discovery campus on Poplar Springs Road in South Hall.