Montgomery Advertiser, Ala., Denise Berkhalter Column.

Byline: Denise Berkhalter

Sep. 10--WITNESSING SCHOOL DAY TEACHES IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION: Dollar-for-dollar, no in vestment has a greater return than the investment in a child's education.

I saw that in the eyes of students attending the first day of school, Aug. 28, at Brewbaker Primary School. The Montgomery Advertiser launched and pulled off, thank goodness, first-day coverage of area schools.

Soon after the bells rang that day, a young boy wrapped his arms around his mother's waist for one last embrace before temporary good-byes.

When he took his place in a line that snaked slowly down shiny, waxed floors, his mother raised her video …