“We'll start with those of you that are interested. We can start talking about what we can do, things that we can do to change the environment, change the culture and do what we can to educate all of us together about each other and how we can get along. I'll commit to that from my office.”
“Some years you get a group of students coming through and every parent wants to be involved, and it's wonderful. Every once in a while you'll get a year when no matter what you do you can't get anybody to run or you get a few but not enough to staff the community council.”
“Our procedure is if a student misses school, they're just counted absent. There have been no comments or big rush or threats of students saying they're going to leave.”
