It had to be done. We're down to one sixth-grade class, one fifth. They're cutting sections because we're losing kids.

Every year, you have to wait and see how many kids are going to be there, and you don't know if you're going to lose a teacher.

We are scared to death of Doyle. Some of us strongly believe in the neighborhood school.

Those three have stepped up to fill the void Katie left. Losing Katie could have been a blow to our program, but those three have kept the morale high.

We just want to win. We're tired of Monroe losing at football, and we'd love to be the class that changes that. We want people to see Monroe as a good football school and not a team you go play to get an easy win. It's nice to get off to a good start, get a couple of wins under our belt.

The bottom line is that the Republicans' out-of-touch economic policies still harm many middle-class Americans worried about paying for their healthcare, their children's education and the higher cost of home heating.