As the local people were active in making the decision, they were eager to carry it through.

We've been operating as an unqualified organization for some time, as of a couple of years ago, the government said we were unqualified.

I know from my own parents how important active older people are to a local community.

Centralized national decision-making on education reduces the role of the parent and the local districts.

It was a strictly financial decision. The revenues just aren't there anymore. People think we wanted to take the show on the road, but that's not true.

After a battle is over, people talk a lot about how decisions were methodically reached, but actually there's always a hell of a lot of groping around.