She averages more points against those public schools than she does against SCISA. And we're not talking just Class A and 2A schools. We're talking about (Class 4A schools) Goose Creek and Stratford.

You're talking about neighborhood schools on one hand and about pulling out two of our neighborhood schools ... on the other. That's why we want to keep a neighborhood school in Turtle Creek.

That was kind of tough because my father (Raymond) taught in the schools here. She was always talking to young people about education, always counseling young people to go to school, get an education. 'Education is your ticket to anything you want to do.' That's why she paid for so many kids to go to school.

Based on talking to other schools, it typically takes two to three years to get the numbers up.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

We're talking about hundreds, thousands, maybe tens of thousands of casualties, an event in the Katrina class.