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"I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed."
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"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."
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"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up."
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"Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training."
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"I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it."
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"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."
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"Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools."
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"As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider."
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"My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school."
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"You ought to go to a boy's school sometime. Try it sometime," I said. "It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques."
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"In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe."
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"I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get."
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"Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards."
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"I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools."
Education

"While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed."
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"As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school funding and we've been focused on the quality debate for most of the '90s."
Quality

"I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start."
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"And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents."
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"Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take."
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"We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working."
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"Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating."
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