We finished (the pier) on Wednesday and by Friday, we had about 200 high school students standing on it for the Auburn Explorer program.

We are extremely saddened by the tragic deaths of two of our high school students this morning and our thoughts and prayers are with the families at this time.

I see students all over and around the building. It looks nothing like a school. It looks like a country club.

There are students who years ago would not even have been in school. Their health problems would have either kept them at home or put them in a special school.

We're going to have to figure out a way for students to go through school faster so more can come in.

They tried to recruit some students from Dowling Middle School.