40 Quotes by Terry Abbott

We're looking at whether we can and should disperse some of the children into different schools.

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.

The principal has the ultimate authority for a school-sponsored event.

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.

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.

If they get more than that, they don't get credit for their classes, so it could affect the promotion of students from grade to grade, and ultimately their ability to graduate on time.

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.

We must continue to match resources with the needs of our children. Our children deserve the best education we can give them, and it's very important that we make absolutely the best use of these resources we have available.

We made that decision based on the educational needs of the children. We did not want to sacrifice four days of those kids' academic lives.