Roy Knight
Roy Knight
Robert RossKnightwas a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland and became a farmer and teacher by career...
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We didn't want to find ourselves in the middle of a large-scale evacuation and not have any lead time to warn parents if we had to close.
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We're extremely fortunate that we have such a caring community,
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Lufkin is a hub, so they told us they were sending MREs (meals ready to eat). But in the meantime, people are hungry. And our people are worn slap out,
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Parents are always grateful when they know their kids are getting treated right.
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We've been in contact with the commissioner of education and at this point in time, she has given us permission to waive all days that we missed because of our current circumstance. What we anticipated would happen in Houston instead has happened in Lufkin, Texas, so at this point, we're not required to use our weather days. We still have cold weather coming and we might have to use those at that point in time.
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We're going to do our best to help meet these kids' educational needs while they're here in Texas. We want them to feel like they're a part of the Lufkin Panther family.