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Gillespie Park Elementary School students pass by a mural in a hallway of the school promoting love, freedom, equality and peace among other qualities in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, May 15, 2014. (NELSON KEPLEY/News & Record)

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Second grade teacher LaTonya Johnson (second from right) helps her students clean their hands before eating lunch at Gillespie Park Elementary School in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, May 15, 2014. (NELSON KEPLEY/News & Record)

Gillespie Park Elementary School fourth-graders Timothy Marshall (left), Armani Ancrum (center) and Charity Oglesby create a presentation board after researching a poet where they applied social studies, reading and writing skills during the project at the school in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, May 15, 2014. (NELSON KEPLEY/News & Record)

This is an exterior view of Gillespie Park Elementary School in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, May 15, 2014. (NELSON KEPLEY/News & Record)

Fourth-grader Charity Oglesby (left) walks into the Gillespie Park Elementary School media center after passing through what used to be the original entrance to the school while passing by principal Joseph Stone (foreground, right), in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, May 15, 2014. (NELSON KEPLEY/News & Record)

Second-graders Antonio Miller (left), Christopher Witcher (second from left) and Jonathan Moore (third from left) work on a spelling lesson in their classroom at Gillespie Park Elementary School in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, May 15, 2014. (NELSON KEPLEY/News & Record)

This block sits near the original entrance of Gillespie Park Elementary School in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, May 15, 2014. A document posted on a wall inside the school's media center indicates a three-story brick school building was completed in 1929 after the school first opened in 1903. (NELSON KEPLEY/News & Record)

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GREENSBORO — They lived two blocks away from the nearest school, but Brenda Florence and her siblings couldn’t go there.

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Gillespie Park Elementary School students pass by a mural in a hallway of the school promoting love, freedom, equality and peace among other qualities in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, May 15, 2014. (NELSON KEPLEY/News & Record)

Second grade teacher LaTonya Johnson (second from right) helps her students clean their hands before eating lunch at Gillespie Park Elementary School in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, May 15, 2014. (NELSON KEPLEY/News & Record)

Gillespie Park Elementary School fourth-graders Timothy Marshall (left), Armani Ancrum (center) and Charity Oglesby create a presentation board after researching a poet where they applied social studies, reading and writing skills during the project at the school in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, May 15, 2014. (NELSON KEPLEY/News & Record)

This is an exterior view of Gillespie Park Elementary School in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, May 15, 2014. (NELSON KEPLEY/News & Record)

Fourth-grader Charity Oglesby (left) walks into the Gillespie Park Elementary School media center after passing through what used to be the original entrance to the school while passing by principal Joseph Stone (foreground, right), in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, May 15, 2014. (NELSON KEPLEY/News & Record)

Second-graders Antonio Miller (left), Christopher Witcher (second from left) and Jonathan Moore (third from left) work on a spelling lesson in their classroom at Gillespie Park Elementary School in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, May 15, 2014. (NELSON KEPLEY/News & Record)

This block sits near the original entrance of Gillespie Park Elementary School in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, May 15, 2014. A document posted on a wall inside the school's media center indicates a three-story brick school building was completed in 1929 after the school first opened in 1903. (NELSON KEPLEY/News & Record)

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