Administrators strongly favor geography; students strongly favor choice.

Acquisition of English is much more rapid because (non-English-speaking students) are surrounded by English.

In lieu of not building buildings, we do not have a choice, We are adding 1,000 students per year. We need to be building three schools every two years, and we are not even coming close to that.

It was our goal for 100 percent of students to get their first or second choice, and that happened -- of the students who turned in their forms. I was pretty confident that it would happen because of the work we had done beforehand with surveys.

Students should be prepared for anything to happen over the next year.

We joked that the first floor students had to wear hard hats.