The public that I had contact with overwhelmingly wanted a nationwide search. It's going to take a while to explain to the public that we as a board -- the board as a majority -- chose not to do a nationwide search.

It seems through the years that the same standards have not applied to Garner schools as to the rest of the county.

The same standard that is applied to other districts is not applied to Garner schools.

We have no idea what the mechanism is that makes this happen. If we ever do understand, it will bring a new understanding to the universe.

Don't go for happiness, go for truth!

Hypnosis is probably the closest metaphor as a state but I don't know if I could equate it [with television watching]. Hypnosis is a state where you destabilize the ordinary state and then eventually get people into an altered state where they will follow a particular stimulus input much more strongly and with much less critical reflection than they would normally; there is certainly a lot of comparability there.