This is the first hurdle for Burke County Public Schools.

An artificial field would be a godsend to some schools.

I think we're behind, I do. A lot of schools are way over 50 percent.

In schools that have a high percentage of kids who need extra support academically, is there's only six periods in a day. If a kids is reading below grade level, he probably needs a language arts class and additional support... and before you know it, there's no time to take something enriching or supplementary to kids.

People need to understand we knew and we told everybody we were going to have some lean years.

The people who are for the current names, they're the ones who'll be calling us next.