#schools

I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school level. Yet if I leave Poppet a note in block letters telling her to feed the dogs I will come home to find the dogs have been ... given a swim in the above-ground pool, dressed in tutus, provided with hair weaves. What I will not find is that the dogs have been fed. 'I thought you wanted me to free the dogs,' says Poppet whose school district is not spending quite what D.C.'s is, thanks to voter rejection of the last school bond referendum. ↗

— P.J. O'Rourke

#dogs #feeding #freedom #humour #middle-school

Maybe they were. I don't know. Maybe they weren't. But they felt like the real thing, and the real thing wanted to make money off me. ↗

— James Patterson

#money

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#principles #purpose #schools

The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, 'This is how you do this.' They're not taught about why you do this. ↗

— Rick Baker

#how #i #people #problem #schools

The time has come to end social promotion in our schools. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#end #our #promotion #schools #social

We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#changed #colleges #expanded #formula #funding

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#believe #bit #crap #doing #every

And, in the case of schools, or anything else, if you have something that is forcing you to do better than you did the day before, it makes you look forward and it makes you think in a way that's going to make the product better, which is the students and the education. ↗

— Craig Benson

#before #better #case #day #did

We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#alive #class #college #congress #dream

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences? ↗

— Nat King Cole

#chance #court #hard #hard time #having