The red carpet is rolled out for MPS students returning to class.

Balloons greet students returning from summer break to Rogers Street Academy for the first day of school on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021 at 2430 W. Rogers street in Milwaukee. School principal Ramon Cruz, right, is on hand to meet students.

Skip Robinson, vice president of camp and club operations for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee, welcomes students back on the first day of school at Rogers Street Academy. Rogers Street Academy and the Boys & Girls Clubs have a partnership at the school.

Prekindergarten-4, teacher Tita Torres goes over class rules to students on the first day of school at Rogers Street Academy on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021 at 2430 W. Rogers street in Milwaukee.

Dr. Keith P. Posely, superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools, left, joins students in pre-kindergarten 4, in a lesson at Rogers Street Academy on the first day of school.

Students listens as their teacher Tita Torres goes over classroom rules in their prekindergarten-4 class on the first day of school at Rogers Street Academy.

A student raises his hand during a visit by Dr.Keith P. Posley, Superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools at Rogers Street Academy on the first day of schools.

Students separated by plastic shields, attend the first day of school at Rogers Street Academy.

City Year AmeriCorps staff wait to welcome back students at Rogers Street Academy.

Dr. Keith P. Posley, center, Superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools drops in on a class at Rogers Street Academyon the first day of school.

Not quite ready for prime time, 3 year-old Bryant, center, waits with his mother Janna Garcia, left, at Rogers Street Academy after his four older siblings ages, 6, 9, 10 and 12, were dropped off at the school on the first day of classes on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021 at 2430 W. Rogers st in Milwaukee. Bryant said that it gives him a chance to see how things are done and hopefully when his time comes it won’t be as scary when he is ready to attend.