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On Friday, January 20, an IDEAL Student Council member led the all-school Lunar New Year Assembly. The junior has been at IDEAL since kindergarten and missed the annual celebration that was sidelined by the pandemic. He worked with Ms. Roper and administrators to bring back IDEAL’s version of the largest holiday celebration in the world, complete with a presentation, a skit, and a dragon parade for Grades K-12+.
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