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December 10, 2018  6 min

Dr. Robert McBride has a monumental task in front of him at the start of every school year; try to make a connection with each of the roughly 1,000 new students entering 9th grade at Neuqua Valley High School. That is on top of maintaining connections with the 3,000 returning students, and managing a staff of more than 400. Despite these numbers, Robert (Bob to those fortunate enough to know him) seems to know at least some distinguishing information about every student!