School is back in session for Rockdale County Public Schools and thousands of students got up in the early morning hours, put on their first-day-of-school clothes, donned their backpacks and poured into schools with parents on the first day of the 2013-2014 year. This was the first day for many specialty school choice programs, such as Memorial Middle School's STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Academy with more than 200 students, CJ Hicks Elementary International Baccalaureate program which started with 24 students from grades K-3, Honey Creek Elementary's STEM program for