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🌱 Patch AM: How could Pinellas’ shrinking enrollment change life at East Lake High?

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  • How could Pinellas' shrinking enrollment change life at East Lake High?

Also on today's calendar: 9/11 Memorial Ceremony and 6 more events.

Today's riddle: Why did the fish blush ? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Wednesday: Humid with a heavy t-storm, with a high of 90 and low of 77 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Pinellas schools are shrinking. Which ones are feeling it most? (tampabay.com) — East Lake families are part of a major Pinellas school shake-up as the district confronts steep enrollment declines and tens of thousands of empty seats. While officials say they don't plan to close high schools, they're eyeing underused campuses, consolidations, and K-8 conversions that could shift where students attend and what programs are offered across the county.
   

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