All teachers are given before- and after-school library passes, which they may give to students.

While most students are knowledgeable about and like the databases, software programs and other high-tech methods available to them, they also are avid readers and enjoy reading books, magazines and the newspaper.

I've had students begging teachers to let them play the game.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

The students and the teachers are all shaken up. In my 20 years at the school, it is the first time that I have ever witnessed something like this.

.School will be back to normal on Wednesday. All students are expected to turn out, and the teachers should be there. We continue our deliberations and seek to iron out the situation.