Everybody had an opinion for or against ... With the school bond, people are much more ambivalent.

People that oppose the bond issue do so on purely financial terms, ... Especially older people ... see themselves as being taxed out of their homes.

Too many young people were entering school behind their achieving peers. We wanted every child to come to school with the same advantages as any other child.

People, they want me to teach school, but no matter what I could teach - I can teach you to be a lawyer, because there are certain rules. There are certain rules in being a doctor or in building houses. But, in making a picture, there are no rules. It's just your particular instinctual feeling for what it is.

A lot of people think we are a total magnet school, ... Really, we are an elementary school with a magnet component. It's kind of like we have two schools under one roof. We have Program A, which is the neighborhood school, and Program B, which is the arts magnet school.

[For Peterson, five months removed from high school, to run for 225 yards in a game of that magnitude is jaw-dropping. At least to everyone but his teammates.] He's been doing this since Day 1, ... When he doesn't do it, then we'll be surprised.