When I was coaching in the schools years ago, I remember working about an eight-week period for the season. Now for many coaches it is practice every day, with preseason and postseason activities.

It's not that I want to break down the public schools, ... I want to improve them for every child, but my children needed to be educated right now.

I am not directly opposed to the fact that they are recruiting high schools, but the means they go about it to get students to sign up for the military,

We'll try to do more mundane programming in the later hours at night and ask schools to set their VCRs. We don't want the channel to be deadly boring to the average person.

Money continues to flow to public schools whether kids are learning or not. They have a monopoly. There's no accountability. There's no incentive for them to change.

In the old days, schools were a collection of classrooms. Today, classrooms are assembly areas; they have community functions. We're making these spaces with a higher volume of space, with different kinds of furniture, so adults can use them.