{"id":408399,"date":"2026-07-22T20:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408399\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:13:08","slug":"thousands-of-students-go-back-to-school-across-the-south-bay-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408399\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of students go back to school across the South Bay \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"

Class is back in session Wednesday for tens of thousands of students across the South Bay.<\/p>\n

The Chula Vista Elementary School District, National School District, South Bay Union School District and Sweetwater Union High School District operate on a year-round schedule, so the summer break is just six weeks long.<\/p>\n

Sixth-graders and best friends Amanda Flores and Stella Bacud said they don’t mind the shortened summer.<\/p>\n

“I feel like that our summer break is fair,” Bacud said. “We have a lot of breaks.”<\/p>\n

Both students said they were excited to see their teachers and friends again and to take advantage of everything the school has to offer.<\/p>\n

“Like the privileges you have as a sixth-grader\u2014activities, Student Council, Peace Patrol, Safety Patrol, all those activities,” said Flores.<\/p>\n

In addition to all the activities, Allen Elementary and many other schools across the district are replacing traditional desks with so-called “flexible seating” in some classrooms.<\/p>\n

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“Flexible seating” is available in some classrooms across the district. <\/p>\n

“What we want to have our students experience is ownership, having that place in that room where every inch of their classroom is a place of learning,” said Principal Lizeth Lopez. “So it builds community, not just learning.”<\/p>\n

In the spirit of building community, the district is holding a Community Expo this Saturday. The event will feature free food, family-friendly activities and resources. It’s happening from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the CVESD office on J Street in Chula Vista.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Class is back in session Wednesday for tens of thousands of students across the South Bay. The Chula…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[82456,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-408399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-back-to-school","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}