I think we're behind, I do. A lot of schools are way over 50 percent.

An artificial field would be a godsend to some schools.

This is the first hurdle for Burke County Public Schools.

In case there was anything catastrophic, we wanted to be safe.

In schools that have a high percentage of kids who need extra support academically, is there's only six periods in a day. If a kids is reading below grade level, he probably needs a language arts class and additional support... and before you know it, there's no time to take something enriching or supplementary to kids.

It is not inevitable that our schools have incidents like this. We can make our schools even safer,