Terry Abbott
Terry Abbott
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He's a good educator who's done good things at that school. In this case he's made a mistake in judgment and he's been appropriately disciplined for it. It's appropriate for only the U.S. and Texas flags to fly in front of schools.
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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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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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Mr. Rios used taxpayer-funded school equipment to copy and distribute to children an offensive statement. The principal exercised his authority to remove Mr. Rios as junior varsity baseball coach, and it certainly was an appropriate decision.
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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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The principal has the ultimate authority for a school-sponsored event.
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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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Everything went very smoothly today. We're very proud of the kids and the staff.
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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're having more patrols outside of the schools in the morning bell time and afternoon bell time, and also during cafeteria time -- lunch time.
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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.