The market is trying to get to grips with which of the two schools of thought is right.

We are trying to be extremely responsive to all the counties involved and thought we'd come right here to our home town and see how they're doing. They've had a couple of issues and today they've done really well while we're here.

What if in 20 years we say, 'small schools? What was that all about?' We're trying to build for a variety of uses because we know it's going to change.

Trying to do a comprehensive long-term plan is not as simple as relieving overcrowding in high schools.

It concerns me when our schools are making significant progress from year to year, and yet are identified as program improvement, ... We should be celebrating the progress the schools are making.

The state board has bent over backward to be helpful to the schools and to be available to us; they have answered every call and every question, sometimes within minutes. If they had not been so nice, this would have been a lot worse for us now.