Gov. Perdue tours Conn Elementary

Gov. Beverly Perdue had her photo op today for the first day of traditional-calendar schools but it came with a lot of restrictions from the Wake school system.

Perdue's office invited the media to cover the governor's ride on the school bus this morning to Conn Elementary School and her tour of the campus. Conn was picked because it's the base school for the Executive Mansion.

Perdue got on the bus at Mordecai and Sycamore streets after talking with parents at the stop. But Wake told the governor's office that photographers could only briefly board the bus and photograph only the children at that stop whose parents were there to give permission.

After talking with the students on the bus, Perdue got off at Conn. She took a brief tour and then welcomed the students back to school via the closed circuit television used for morning announcements.

Wake told photographers that they could only shoot wide crowd shots in the halls and in the classrooms. Photographers were asked not to not focus in on any one child unless he or she was accompanied by a parent.