Talking with the teachers that teach my children, they don't think it's going to be as big of benefit.

He's never been real big talking about himself. He won't even tell the teachers when he gets back how he placed at some of the major competitions, so they're afraid to ask because they think maybe he didn't do real well. But then he'd taken first.

Just because other schools and counties are doing it, it doesn't mean we necessarily have to follow it. We need to do what's best for the children in our area.

Most of us over this last spring break were thinking, if we have to wait three more weeks, we'll all be crazy.

You're talking this many forms per child, and the teachers are so stressed out and bogged down with it that you are taking time away from the child. We showed (the new system) to the area supervisors and they were just amazed at what the program could do.

We are asking that this money (cost-of-living adjustment) come out of the general fund and not the teachers' retirement system.