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He recognizes the need* to maintain and encourage excellence in Virginia schools and supports added emphasis on mastering basic skills, she said. “It may be we need to ask our schools to do less but to do it better,” Mrs. Coleman said.
Teachers need to be given the tools they need for maintaining classroom discipline since without discipline, learning can’t take place, she continued. Parents must again become involved with the schools, Mrs. Coleman said, indicating this was critical in upholding discipline, “and we need to pay our teachers good salaries,” she added.
“A great society comes not from big government but from big people,” Mrs. Coleman said, adding that her husband feels he can be the catalyst needed to spark this greatness through innovative approaches to government.
“Marshall is Virginia born and educated. He knows the people and the state,” Mrs. Coleman said. The Republican candidate for governor has been making decisions for Virginians for years—first in the state legislature and more recently as attorney general, she noted.
“He’s ready to put sound Republican principles to work in government. Marshall's not going to require a single day of on-the-job training.”
On behalf of her husband who skipped a campaign stop in Rappahannock in order to visit his son in the hospital, Niki Coleman asked the audience of county Republicans for their help in electing Marshall Coleman as governor.
“It will be a tough race.” she conceded, “but the signs and polls are looking good.”
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