When you're different from the mainstream, being singled out, positively or negatively, just enhances difference. And sometimes that can make a student uncomfortable.

You have to have an environment where your opinion is OK. Green Bay is learning how to be diverse. We were a homogenous community 20, 30 years ago. We're going to stumble a little bit, but we have to be optimistic.

We want to create top-quality programs for all kids. Now, of course, as a diversity liaison, I'm going to actively recruit minority students because that's where the achievement gap lies.

History is a sly boots, and for a generation of blacks that cannot identify with the frustrations of Jim Crow, and for whites who cannot understand the hard deal that faces working-class blacks, it is difficult to reconcile Hughes's reputation as a poet-hero with his topical verse and uncomplicated prose.

We were trying not to underestimate them but we might have been looking ahead. Fort Myers can go as far as they want to go.

We made several runs but they had an answer for everyone. I hope that no one underestimates them the rest of the way. They're a good team. They play well together and they do all the things that good teams do. They rebound, they play defense, they shoot.