When we have students having problems constantly, those problems need to be addressed.

You're never finished with it. Every year, you get hundreds of new students, and they don't know what we do about diversity because they've never been here before. There's sort of this attitude that if I don't know about it, then maybe it doesn't exist.

Doing it this way is not going to have a diverse committee. It's going to be lopsided.

She has to take two blocks of reading. That takes away time that she could be using to take another subject. They're counting the reading as a ninth-grade English. She's losing out on that English.

I wish we were being able to put counselors in the schools rather than policemen.

We need the custodial staff because of the square footage we have in the buildings. It's kind of a waste of money if you fix buildings up but you don't maintain them.