One of the (high school) teachers had been to the Fringe festival and she told me about it, ... I thought it sounded like a great idea.

The overall goal is to increase the number of kids who get high school diplomas . ... I thought maybe I can make a difference with one student.

Students returned still in lock-down mode to give teachers an opportunity to take roll. Then, the school went into an abbreviated instructional schedule. We did what we were supposed to do. We went into lock-down. We promptly evacuated the building. And we took the extra step of making sure that all students were accounted for.

We've lost some good teachers, because we've had highly qualified teachers and other counties have sought them out,

I was always the kid in school that teachers were getting after to be quiet. My report card had math, A, reading, A, spelling, A, science, A, conduct, F. I was always talking to somebody. They would always take me and put me over in a corner by myself.

My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears and then neon orange to the frizzy ends. I can't decide if she had pissed off her hairdresser or is morphing into a monarch butterfly. I call her Hairwoman.