Say what?
by Tracy Press
Jan 17, 2008 | 118 views | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend | print

“I’m going to grab every opportunity I can succeed in life. And GATE is the way to do that.”

— Jamie Lam, a Wicklund School seventh-grader, on the advanced after-school classes offered to Gifted and Talented Education students in the Lammersville School District.

 

“Tracy always tries to ‘out-nice’ the other side. And it works.”

— Tracy High School senior Brooke McCarthy, on courtroom competition for the San Joaquin County mock trial trophy.

 

“And this is great, because we still have a war going, and there are people who go out to protect our freedoms while we go to the mall.”

— Marilyn Chorley of Military Moms of Tracy, on the Tracy City Council approving the hanging of banners in downtown Tracy that honor deployed Tracy service members.

 

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