Jeanette Woods Quotations

She has to take two blocks of reading. That takes away time that she could be using to take another subject. They're counting the reading as a ninth-grade English. She's losing out on that English.

I have a concern what we're spending if 54 percent of students made the same or less growth than in previous years.

I wish we were being able to put counselors in the schools rather than policemen.

We need the custodial staff because of the square footage we have in the buildings. It's kind of a waste of money if you fix buildings up but you don't maintain them.

A lot of people are used to watching it on TV.

It's just really upsetting the public. It doesn't give the public a process to vent, if they have the perception that it's already a done deal. Ninety-nine percent of the time, it is.

Doing it this way is not going to have a diverse committee. It's going to be lopsided.

I just don't know why they have to do these things without communicating with the parents. Who made the decision? The board didn't vote on it. It doesn't quite seem right to me. I'm not real pleased with it.

He's the top man, and whatever the people under him do, he is ultimately responsible.

I don't see how it's equitable. We're putting more money into schools already completed when other schools aren't getting any.