17 Quotes by Roy Knight

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.

We're extremely fortunate that we have such a caring community,

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.

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.

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,

maxed out. We're drowning, and we need some relief.

We expect to have about 100 new students by day's end,

Parents are always grateful when they know their kids are getting treated right.

I think our moms and dads were ready to get back in the routine, and the kids were just great they seemed delighted to be back.