We can meet them after school and bring them string cheese and apples.

For me, I'd be missing so much school to leave school so much earlier means making up so much homework, which takes so much time.

I knew the school was going to be crowded, but I never thought it would be within a year's time.

They all will benefit from more kids in school,

Well, it could happen again. We don't have any huge widespread drug problems, but middle school is often the age of experimentation and that's why we want to help our students have a way to say no.

For me personally, I usually don't swim very fast at this point in the season, so it's encouraging to see that I can get up and go that fast when I have to. Hopefully it will all come together and I'll be even better at conference.