We have much different issues than the teachers. Just because the teachers go thus and so, it doesn't mean that's right for our members.

It is our job each day to give the students of Akron our assistance in obtaining the best education possible.

When you go to the table, you see a person who has no interest in the Akron Public Schools -- no stake. That's very bothersome.

We're sorry that we're not it.

I think it would be a mistake to think teachers were bad teachers before accountability and now they're good. It's that before, we were making our own standards. Now, we've got a commonality.

I really don't want to see the state of Florida create a caste system where you have superior teachers who are sought after by the parents and then a whole class of untouchable teachers.