It was a real team effort throughout Lufkin and Angelina County.

After consulting with the city's emergency management officials, we decided to cancel school at all of our campuses (today) and Friday,

Even for high school students we expect some degree of forgiveness particularly for those students that have only been here a short period of time whether it's Katrina or Rita. We expect less forgiveness for out Texas students who have been in our Texas system all along.

We're going to try to help these kids have as normal a school setting as possible,

The parents I've talked to really appreciate how LISD employees treat their kids,

We'll spend the next two or three days rearranging our campuses - cleaning, disinfecting, making them safe for our kids and expect to start school Monday. No one is required to come to school - not teaching staff or otherwise; they need to tend to their own family needs at this point in time.

We're not expecting all of them to stay forever, but whether they're here two days, two months or longer, we'll do our best to make them feel welcome.

We made it clear we need to get our schools ready to resume classes.

I think our moms and dads were ready to get back in the routine, and the kids were just great they seemed delighted to be back.

Parents are always grateful when they know their kids are getting treated right.