Terry Abbott
Terry Abbott
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We don't know at this point when we're going to resume classes. There's no way for us to know.
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Any student who engages in this kind of activity today can be suspended for up to three days, and may be removed from school outright. There also are severe academic consequences.
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We must continue to match resources with the needs of our children. Our children deserve the best education we can give them, and it's very important that we make absolutely the best use of these resources we have available.
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We made that decision based on the educational needs of the children. We did not want to sacrifice four days of those kids' academic lives.
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Our police department keeps a pretty close watch with their gang-intervention officers, and the police chief (John Blackburn) said we have not seen an increase in gang activity. Kids still fight like they do anywhere in the country, but that doesn't mean it's a gang-related issue.
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Our office of inspector general is investigating inappropriate behavior at a school-sponsored event held off campus back in February.
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They've made it very clear to the Jones High School students that the children from New Orleans are our guests. We must treat them with all the dignity and respect we can.
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If parents want Johnny to eat chips one day a week, they can go in and make changes to allow them to buy a bag of chips on, say, Fridays.
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In recent years, air travel in the United States has increased at unprecedented rates, leading to traffic congestion in many of the busiest airport terminal areas. And that trend is expected to continue. This standard supports the technologies aimed at alleviating the congestion.
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He ran out in the street and held his hands out and stopped the bus. He jumped on the hood and then climbed on the roof.
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The idea is to move the program, but to keep the idea behind delivering special services for these students.
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All of these schools are big, and they all have doors around the campus, and obviously if a door is left ajar, certainly it is possible for someone to get in. That's why we have officers walking the halls and teachers walking the halls and administrators walking the halls, looking for anyone who is there who shouldn't be there.