The mother explained it to a teacher at the school who didn't know these were gang colours, ... The kids were being recruited through their colours.

When you have four kids in the 30s and a couple hanging around 40, you'll win high school matches. The kids have been doing a nice job. I'm very satisfied.

Kids went to school by that whistle,

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.

This war is not our war, ... As a mother, not just as a minister, send your kids to school. It's the right thing to do.

Never. Not middle school baseball. Not high school football. I never got cut.