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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)

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)
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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.


