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Teacher Marcie Levy-Escobar gets a hug from former student Estfany De La Fuente (CQ) ESTFANY, who graduated in 2010, during the Back 2 School Bash at Santa Fe South Charter High School in Oklahoma City on Monday, Aug. 1, 2011. De La Fuente was at the school helping her cousin, who is a freshman this year. Photo by John Clanton, The Oklahoman

Students in different school districts around the Oklahoma City metro area started school last week. At Santa Fe South Charter High School, students start the year with the Back 2 School Bash. Students and teachers get a chance to talk, look over their class schedules and pick up school uniforms a few days before the school year gets started.

I photographed the Back 2 School Bash and the first day of classes for a story by Ginnie Graham at the Tulsa World and the Oklahoma Watch project. You can read Ginnie’s story by clicking here, or take a look at more back to school images collected by staff photographers at The Oklahoman.

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