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"I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him."
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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."
"The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type."
"When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays."
"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."
"You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together."
"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."
"I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off."
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"The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board."
"A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher."
"As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests."
"The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education."
"Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards."
"Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels."
"In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority."
"Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so."
"In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student."
"Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins."
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