I don't know what his agenda is. I have to listen to what he has to say. I vote for the man who I think is going to do the best job for the state. |
I think that is unprofessional, I think that is unethical and I am aghast that somebody would do that. This is a closed club, and they don't want anybody in their club, and that's what this e-mail says. |
I think that our public schools sometimes get a bad rap - and sometimes deservedly so. I think the goal of every school system has to be excellence. |
I would like to offer whatever I have to offer as a help. I've spent most of my time in Staunton working with programs for kids. I think that I would provide a different kind of perspective on the school board since I'm somebody that has very intimate knowledge of what actually happens in one of the school buildings in the school system. |
Just looking at the process, and seeing how things worked, I just thought that I would like to get involved. |
That game got it all started. Without that win over South Carolina, then nothing that happened afterwards would have been quite the same. |
That involves making sure that you recruit and retain and pay properly the best teachers. I think that means making sure that you devote a very high percentage of your limited resources to actual teacher-to-pupil instruction - rather than on administration and various support services. I think that means you create through the proper administration of discipline an atmosphere that is most conducive to learning. |
The big issue facing any school is very simple. It boils down to one word - excellence. |
The Monday after Selection Sunday, I'm scrambling to learn all the teams that I'll have to do later in the week. And then I'm out on the road. |
With the exception of the March school-board meeting, I think that I would be more available than many other people who work more normal kind of jobs. |