After three weeks of classes, new White Salmon Valley School District Superintendent Sean McGeeney says it has been a successful and safe start to the school year.  McGeeney says it has been better that he expected, and the word that comes to his mind is “joy,” seeing that emotion in classrooms every day.  McGeeney says face coverings are being used by everyone in the classroom with students separated by at least three feet and air filters in the rooms.  He adds they are getting students outside as much as possible.  In addition kindergarten through eighth graders are eating lunch in a six-thousand square foot outdoor pavilion.