20121220 Week of December 16 to 22, 2012

Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com<br />
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Alex Smith (center) participates in the morning prayer in Anita Turner's seventh grade homeroom at St. Mary's School in Sycamore, Ill. before mass on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. Turner's current 24-student classroom is 422.5 square feet in size, with class sizes likely to exceed 30 in the coming years, according to St. Mary's School Principal Ross Bubolz. The school's expansion is slated to open for the 2014-15 school year and Turner will have a 776 square foot room.

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Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com

Alex Smith (center) participates in the morning prayer in Anita Turner's seventh grade homeroom at St. Mary's School in Sycamore, Ill. before mass on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. Turner's current 24-student classroom is 422.5 square feet in size, with class sizes likely to exceed 30 in the coming years, according to St. Mary's School Principal Ross Bubolz. The school's expansion is slated to open for the 2014-15 school year and Turner will have a 776 square foot room.