I hope the community is better for having had open and honest debate about the future of West Texas and how we can move the Big Country forward.

This is another step our School Board takes along with our community to keep our kids safe on one of the bigger nights of their high school career. If this keeps even one student from being killed that night, the inconvenience will have paid off.

It's a time for us to remember the people that have dedicated their lives to changing lives, to guiding children. They of course are teachers. And they have to be jazzed about teaching to keep up the inspiration and the motivation that creates excellent in our classrooms.

I believe as they do in the fundamental right to life, and I will help promote respect for the value of the unborn.

We have to send the message that this is wrong.