"School of the Future" Opens in Whitfield County

Eastbrook Middle School

DALTON,GA (WRCB) -- For 47 years, Eastbrook Middle School students and teachers toiled inside a dank, dark building. Now they are entering the future.

So what is it like?

"It's like coming form a dungeon into heaven," said principal George Kopcsak. "The natural light, the courtyard area. It's beutiful. Even ourhallways are learning spaces."

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