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MIKE SPRINGER/Staff photo
Music teacher Richard Carpenter shouts out to students, including kindergartener Kihanna Boutchie in the left foreground, as fellow teacher Jeannine Stanley, right, and school nurse Donna Smith (holding sign) dance in a flash mob during the final school meeting of the year Thursday at Essex Elementary School. Some students received awards during the event, everyone sang songs and the teachers joined the kids in the flash mob at the end, playing with a beach ball and dancing to the tune of "Down at the Beach."

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