132 Quotes About Schools

  • Author Shenita Etwaroo
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    Through all of these anti-bullying campaigns and so-called ‘no tolerance’ programs adopted by school districts, why are children still falling through the cracks?Shenita Etwaroo

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  • Author Abhijit V. Banerjee
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    Schools are available. In most countries, they are free, at least at the primarylevel. Most children are enrolled. And yet in the various surveys that we haveconducted around the world, child absentee rates vary between 14 percent and50 percent

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  • Author Mary Sage Nguyen
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    Standardized state tests are a scam! The educational system is rigged. It is set up to where the wealthy schools, get all of the state funding. The poverty-stricken schools, don't get enough funding due to standardized tests scores. See my point?

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  • Author Diane Ravitch
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    Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program.

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  • Author Kirsten Olson
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    In fact, I think that our society expects schools to get students to the point where they do things only for outside rewards. People who perform tasks for their internal reasons are hard to control. Now, I don't think teachers get up in the morning and say to themselves, 'I', going to go to school today and take away all those young people's internal motivations' ...but that's exactly what often happens.

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  • Author David D. Burns
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    There is no standard 'therapeutic process,' since there are so many different schools of therapy.

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