Obviously, this is not about academic achievement in the classroom.

Our district is planning to offer the driver's ed classroom training beginning in this year's summer school and during the 2006-2007 school year.

For a situation such as what happened to her, when the person can't give us contact numbers, it will make it a lot easier in an event of emergency.

Her inquiry prompted it and this was something we could do without the legislation.

You're not going to learn the most tangible, applied processes in a book, or a classroom, or a lecture. It's not rocket science. All you need is good eyesight, a strong back, and good shipboard balance.

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.