State Sen. Ryan T. McDougle (R-Hanover) visited Botetourt Elementary and Gloucester High schools Monday as part of the Virginia Schools Boards Association’s Take Your Legislator to School Month. Above, McDougle, center, is shown with Gloucester County School Board member Anita Parker (left) and Botetourt principal Felicia Hudgins in Michele Brake’s kindergarten classroom. Students shown practicing sounding out words were, clockwise from left, Cash Callis, Emily Newhouse, Zoey Reger and Greer White. Below, school board member Kari Scruggs helps Kathryn Cava’s fifth grade math students Mason Burgess (at the board), Emerson Connell and Brooke Hogge practice their factors.

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