23 Quotes by Shaun Rinier

My personal opinion is this isn't even about what the district can afford. It's turned into a personal and petty battle. I think if the state would drive a dump truck full of money to the administration building, they still wouldn't budge on the offer.

We just went through some of our unresolved language items. I think we got most of them resolved. We're going to work on it a little more (today).

We were probably at about 35 percent across the district. I'm not real sure why the district picked these days to have school.

The union wanted to go on strike two months ago. The association has been on my case. They feel we've been wasting time.

It was a very good meeting. There's lots of support. We're standing by our offer. We're willing to do whatever we have to do.

It's still behind most of the neighboring districts, but it's comparable. These are salaries that are going to keep people here, and it's going to attract teachers here and keep them, and that's what we want.

I told all the teachers to come down, and any members of the community that want to. A teacher mentioned (the idea of a rally) to me. I thought it would be a good idea. It just kind of spontaneously happened. Some parents have helped to organize it as well.

They wanted to go out a couple months ago. I held off as long as I could.

They have requested a meeting for Monday. Hopefully, this isn't just a meeting for them to save face with the public. If they were serious, we'd be meeting right now. I'm not real optimistic.