One of the things I heard when I got here was that we educate our children so well that they go someplace else to be successful. That's a challenge our whole community has to work on, to have them be successful back here.

For openers, we've got to hire a counselor this year to replace an interim hire, who's retired. Then Pat Krause will be retire the next year. Counselors are normally teachers who have an extra master's degree. Those would probably not be new teachers.

If he does it again, he won't be subbing here anymore.

We all remember the tortoise and the hare. The tortoise won the race, but the hare didn't keep the same schedule.

Another very significant program that was enabled by the school building changes was the fifth grade band program. All students at Norrie and at All Saints Academy take band, they have to try an instrument.

We have all the teachers of each grade in the same building and usually on the same floor. It just makes for a more collaborative environment.