Both ... served our schools for many years. Both were role models for our youths and well liked by our community.

We as a community, as the district, should show how much we appreciate them. I can't think of a better way to recognize them than in this way.

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.

We've always partnered with the schools. They are the anchors of the community.

We're opening up the doors of the schools to the community and we'd like to see as much community involvement in our schools as possible.

It's very important for the real estate community, as well, to have good schools. Overall, you might see a decline in the value of real estate if the high schools were to lose accreditation.