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.
The system didn't break down, ... The system just wasn't designed to handle something so catastrophic.
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.
Everything went very smoothly today. We're very proud of the kids and the staff.
We're looking at whether we can and should disperse some of the children into different schools.
The student shouldn't have been, even though this was part of an active drug investigation, strip searched.
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.
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.
We don't know at this point when we're going to resume classes. There's no way for us to know.
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