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For the third year, Double Eagle Elementary School teacher Eileen Karas has transformed her classroom into Boxville for one week.


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Nathan Price has a $3 hairstyle done by Sky Goodman-Janow. Nathan and Sky are third-graders in Eileen Karas' class at Double Eagle Elementary School. Sky's salon is in Boxville, a student-run city that takes over the classroom for one week each year. (Craig Fritz/Tribune)

The goal is to teach children how a community works. To incorporate Boxville, furniture goes out and refrigerator boxes move in.

As residents of Boxville, Karas' third-graders conduct business out of the decorated boxes, pay taxes, keep checkbooks and elect a mayor and four city councilors.

City Manager Emily Louise Corley (center) makes a map of Boxville while another student buys stamps at the post office. Each of teacher Eileen Karas' 23 third-graders has a role to play in Boxville, built out of refrigerator boxes. (Craig Fritz/Tribune)