“The county wants to make this right. I had my engineer send a letter to tell the county that it was not a good installation. However, there's no immediate danger of it collapsing.”
“I'll start looking at things a little more differently. I won't make as many excuses as I used to. I'll start challenging my friends to do better and actually talking to the [school] administrators more.”
“(Watts) seems to be supportive of them trying to get their act together. Whether or not he can turn it around in time to meet our expectations has yet to be determined.”
“It's almost like a game, with various people playing king of the hill. These groups are structured very hierarchically, and each of them have certain reputations they like to maintain. It's very similar to inner-city gang members, minus the violence.”
