We will work with the teachers at other schools. No teacher will be affected, and we will have more to offer for the kids.

Don't let it get in the way of the schools working together. If we look at everything, we'll never get off the launching pad. ? Pick (the class) first, a class that would have been canceled. We don't want to find problems. We want to make plans and solve the problems when they come up.

I get the sense when I go out to the schools [that] the teachers will tell you how they feel. And the sense that I have about the teachers' feelings is they don't feel truly appreciated with what they are doing in the classroom.

Our schools will be open on Friday, hopefully with our teachers.

This is a result of hard work from teachers and administrators. Being one of the six schools in Arkansas to accomplish this is exciting.

You're only half-kidding about watering down. It's not right. Our students will go to college and have to compete against kids whose schools didn't water down their classes.