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Byline: Jennifer Radcliffe
Jul. 12--For just a few weeks, these 100 pint-size sixth-graders are the big men and women on the Lee High School campus.
That status will be as short-lived as the mandatory summer session to teach them the ropes of YES Prep Public Schools, a charter school that opened Wednesday on the third floor of the super-size campus in the Gulfton area.
When school resumes in earnest next month, the middle-schoolers will share the space with about 2,000 older teens in a charter-traditional school partnership that's unique in Texas.
The younger students already are planning their strategies for coping with potential bullies: "I'd just keep walking," 10-year-old Saul Bravo advised. "You don't want to get in a fight with the…