Our feeling, in talking with people at the school, was disbelief that she would actually be involved in something like this.

All the information was given to the (PTO) board to decide how they wanted to move forward because the school had no standing.

A hundred standing people smiling and talking to one another, nodding like gooney birds.

It was another great high school wrestling match. If you can't get excited about what happened on Saturday and tonight, you can't get excited.

I felt a little disbelief that we were actually done and that this was it. You spend three years working your tail off and you reach that final goal — I can't even explain how good it felt.

Pretty much, everything went crazy. I was in disbelief. Stunned, actually.