I see this as an opportunity for unification of the community. It's our opportunity as members of the school board to cease the moment.

This is a great opportunity for our middle school to witness the political process first hand,

When you're in school growing up, you have teachers who sit and read to these kids, and what better opportunity to sit and read a story - one that's not fake. It's not a dreaming story. It's not Harry Potter. It's a real-life story, with glorious moments to horrific moments, including the frostbite - and what better way to show kids their potential than with a real-life story?

What we are doing is attempting to open it up to appeal to the broad base of the community. There's a lot of things to delineate, particularly with the short time frame to get it on the ballot for June.

I respect the decision of the School Committee members.

It's going to be a big loss in the football community. He helped open that school and has done a tremendous job there.