[Others draw comparisons with automobiles.] Why buy a Mercedes versus a Chevy? It’s a little bit more luxury, ... Women swear by their jeans when they find a good fit. |
Grieving is natural. It is not a disease. |
I think (the leaders) are there. It's whether or not they know how to do that yet is what we've got to find. I'm not sure they know who they are yet, so we'll see. |
I think he's been explicit telling people what they really don't want to hear because of the way the rules are written. Unfortunately, the state legislature is the only one that can change things. |
I'm not real pleased as many times as we had it down there and shot ourselves in the foot a few times. I think doing what we wanted to do, we did it. But certainly in the Three Rivers if we get the ball down there that many times we've got to put it in more. |
If you look at those arrests, those were a while ago. We knew about them, but after the process, she proved she wasn't like that anymore. |
One thing we talked about is being an inexperienced team, when you get adversity, everybody's got to come together and pick it up. I think when they saw Laura go down, who's one of our tougher kids, the kids had a little bit of an emotional letdown. |
She went before a group of people at the state level, and she adequately demonstrated her problems were in the past. With that, we approved her. |
She's just an amazing swimmer, ... We have a great juniors program in Sheridan Swim Club. My sister and I have swum there for 13 years, since we were four?years old. Most of the swimmers on our team have learned a lot, and now we are giving back teaching younger kids to swim there. |
Teens don't want to be different, so they won't tell their peers. They know that they will not understand. |
Teens sometimes feel that inflicting pain on yourself will transfer the pain somewhere else. Teens doing this should find a trusted adult like a teacher or counselor to talk to. |
The real one we're going after starts next week. |
There's got to be a point where the state legislature or somebody says wait a minute, there's hog free zones. We got to have that. We got to have some local control back for our board to be able to say 'no'. |
This is something none of us could've predicted. |
We want to treat independent living youth who are in foster care the same as any other child in the world. Just because they're in foster care doesn't mean they shouldn't be able to drive. |