Second grade teacher Christina Tomcany lines up youngsters getting off the bus on the first day of school in 2010 at Lee-Jackson Elementary School in Mathews. Students, pictured from left, are Dawson Adams, Hayden Downs, Victoria Bing, Landon Green, Wyatt Craven and William Craven. Looking on in the background is school board chairman John Persinger. The opening day was “just incredibly smooth” at all three Mathews schools, according to Superintendent of Schools David Holleran, with a first-day enrollment of 1,230. It was also Tomcany’s first school day in Mathews … as a teacher. The former Christina Pope is a graduate of Mathews County Public Schools.
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