If 2,000 kids walk out, you're losing $80,000.

We only get funding if the student is there.

I'm excited because education is a priority in this budget. But I'm concerned the state is still deficit-spending, and that could put us at risk.

We don't know how much it will be and how we will receive it.

There was very little left. It's bad enough losing your kids, but our kids were burned beyond recognition. There were no open caskets. There were no bodies to say goodbye to.

For my kids to come back after losing that first match took a lot of gumption. They could have easily died. I'm very proud. They needed to know they could do that.