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“The quickest way to earn a ticket out of Jones High School and into detention is to hurt one of those students from New Orleans. They've made it very clear to the Jones High School students that the children from New Orleans are our guests. We must treat them with all the dignity and respect we can.”
Terry Abbott
“We're looking at whether we can and should disperse some of the children into different schools.”
“They've made it very clear to the Jones High School students that the children from New Orleans are our guests. We must treat them with all the dignity and respect we can.”
“Everything went very smoothly today. We're very proud of the kids and the staff.”
“The system didn't break down, ... The system just wasn't designed to handle something so catastrophic.”
“We don't know at this point when we're going to resume classes. There's no way for us to know.”
“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.”
“The student shouldn't have been, even though this was part of an active drug investigation, strip searched.”
“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.”
“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.”
