Lufkin ISD appears to be the only school district in the region _ possibly the only one in the state _ still housing hurricane evacuees in school district facilities, … We have to have some...

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

Lufkin is a hub, so they told us they were sending MREs (meals ready to eat). But in the meantime, people are hungry. And our people are worn slap out,

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

We expect to have about 100 new students by day’s end,

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.

We’ve been in contact with the commissioner of education and at this point in time, she has given us permission to waive all days that we missed because of our current circumstance. What we anticipated...

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’re extremely fortunate that we have such a caring community,

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

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

I’m really frustrated right now,

maxed out. We’re drowning, and we need some relief.

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

We didn’t want to find ourselves in the middle of a large-scale evacuation and not have any lead time to warn parents if we had to close.

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

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...