If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.

If we're going to make a real dent in the bullying issue, we're going to have to address the bullies themselves: find ways to help empower them that don't include allowing them to be predators or to simply be punished.

Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used.

If I have any complaints about my youth... one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spiteful lies with malicious intent but lies designed to prevent emotional and psychological pain - lies told by the people who cared about me most: my parents, teachers, relatives.

My personal bias is to let districts and schools and teachers make the adjustments and not to try to look at a system-wide adjustment,

We think this is a win-win situation both for Arkansas schools in need of teachers and for displaced educators in need of a job until they are able to return to their homes.