We are naturally distressed that the numbers turned out the way they did, but we are not discouraged.

The message to teachers … is if you don't come to work tomorrow, you are hurting the kids.

We hope that more teachers recognize this is not constructive and that we can work together.

It's another way of learning besides the traditional chalkboard method.

We want to encourage parents to be calm. We want to assure them that the students are safe.

Naturally we are concerned about the suggestion we lost more kids than we thought. We are going to work hard at our outreach and we want to step up our campaign even more this year.