I mean fourth-graders ought to be able to make 11 for 26 blindfolded. That's embarrassing.

Our fourth-graders were very successful. They had just about the same passing rate as our eighth-graders, even though they had to achieve at a higher standard. We have to figure out how to have the same success at eighth grade.

I was so sad to read recently that 32 percent of fourth- graders say they never read a book for pleasure,

He doesn't know where. They blindfolded them. Sometimes they were literally beat to the point they literally passed out.

I can remember nights before games when they were fourth graders, and they'd go to bed with their uniforms on. They were ready for the next morning to get up and go.

We probably had 20 or 25 third- to eighth-graders just wanting a picture taken with her when we got back to the pep assembly (on Sunday). What this is going to do for my program the next few years ...