Danville Class of 2012: Getting through first-day anxieties

Editor's Note: This is the first of an occasional series about the Class of 2012 at Danville High.

Thursday morning. The first full day.

It's still cool outside when Jessica Driver steps off a school bus outside Danville High School. She scans the crowd of students – all of them clutching new backpacks and notebooks, many of them likely just as anxious as she is.

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