Terry Abbott
Terry Abbott
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We want to make sure that our testing process is absolute integrity. Parents need to know that the academic results are real. They need to know that children are learning.
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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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We understand the concern of the parents. Our first concern, of course, was the safety of the children. When TSU informed us that the building was dangerous, we moved very quickly to relocate the children. Officials here have worked many hours since then to find a permanent home for MCTC and have had many discussions with parents to keep them updated on the search.
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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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It'll help out a great deal. This entire exercise has been a huge undertaking by the district for a worthy cause.
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What's at stake is reputation of the school district and the learning of the children. Those are very important things and we can't leave that to chance.
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Everything went very smoothly today. We're very proud of the kids and the staff.
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We have families who are under duress from what happened with the storm. It is natural that a situation like that is going to cause some tension.
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There's nothing we can do about that. There's a finite amount of money. That's a fact of life.
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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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These saved seconds will reduce the number of delays in our busiest airports.
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The student shouldn't have been, even though this was part of an active drug investigation, strip searched.
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The system didn't break down, ... The system just wasn't designed to handle something so catastrophic.
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If they get more than that, they don't get credit for their classes, so it could affect the promotion of students from grade to grade, and ultimately their ability to graduate on time.