We are at a disadvantage to the larger high schools. At times, I feel like we really haven't been completely prepared for college.

It's strictly 1A schools from here, and I think by the end of the year we can be one of the better 1A schools. We may not have won conference since 1998, but we've won three state championships since then. That's what we're shooting for now.

If we hadn't fought for them, our schools would have received an amount so low it would have again required cutting calendar days and other devastating cuts,

It's not the education; it's the social issues in the schools. The children are troubled there. The parents are troubled. There's no cure in sight.

We need to be careful about the precedents we're setting on caps for charter schools. We need to look at the caps as a whole.

It seems as though Durham Public Schools has systematically boycotted Hillside. You have now bred a herd of discarded talent.