Washington School Boasts 10 Sets of Twins
The principal says this is the highest number of twins ever at the school
— -- Teachers and fellow students at a learning center in Washington State are seeing double this school year thanks to a whopping 10 sets of twins enrolled in kindergarten.
The principal of the Captain Gray Learning Center in Pasco, Wash., says she has had multiple sets of twins over the course of her six years at the all-kindergarten school, but never like this.
“We always have a few sets of twins but never this many ,” Kristi Docken told ABC News of her 520-kid strong school.
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Docken says the twins are split exactly down the middle when it comes to fraternal vs identical sets and include 12 boys and eight girls.
Because the school is a kindergarten-only center with 25 classrooms, all 10 sets of twins are learning in separate classrooms.
"There’s usually one twin who’s more dominant than the other and being apart allows them to develop,” Docken said. "We try to match them up for the parent’s sake with similar teachers so they have similar homework."
Docken said the school tries to accommodate parents who request their twins be placed together – because, Docken says, “parents know their kids best” - but that this year the only parent who made that request had a change of heart.
“The mom came back the next day and said, ‘No I want them apart,’” Docken recalled.
The 10 twin sets became local celebrities just a few weeks into the school year this year when Docken took a few of them to the local school district office to lead the pledge of allegiance at a meeting.
That led to their first-ever “photo shoot” yesterday when 18 of the five and six-year-olds came together for a group shot. One set of twins was home sick from school, according to Docken.
“[Tuesday] was the first day we’ve ever had all of them together at one time,” Docken said. “It was cute to watch them see their sibling and to actually see all of them together.”
Making the twin-cidence even more of a strange coincidence is that the school’s assistant principal is himself a twin whose twin brother also works in education.
“His brother is a principal at another school,” Docken said.
