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1 " Fifth grade was fourth grade with something wrong. Nothing changed outright. Instead it teetered. You'd pushed futility at Public School 38 so long by then you expected the building itself would be embarrassed and quit. The ones who couldn't read still couldn't, the teachers were teaching the same thing for the fifth time now and refusing to meet your eyes, some kids had been left back twice and were the size of janitors. The place was a cage for growing, nothing else. School lunch turned out to be the five-year-plan, the going concern. You couldn't be left back from fish sticks and sloppy joes. You'd retain at the least two thousand half-pint containers of vitamin D-enriched chocolate milk.Two black guys from the projects, twins, were actually named Ronald and Donald MacDonald. The twins themselves only shrugged, couldn't be made to agree it was incredible. "
― Jonathan Lethem , The Fortress of Solitude
2 " Only one day at public school and the bitches already made your locker rain?" she laughs. " Impressive. "
3 " THE TRUTH ABOUT PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION • American fifteen-year-olds rank thirty-fifth out of fifty-seven developed countries in math and literacy. • 30 percent of public school students don’t graduate from high school. • Every day, 7,000 kids drop out of high school. • Of the 50 million children currently in public school, 15 million of them will drop out. • 25 percent of all public school math teachers did not major in mathematics or a math-related subject at a college or university. • Less than two-thirds of high school graduates are accepted to college every year. • One half... "
4 " I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home. "
― Eric Jerome Dickey , Finding Gideon
5 " My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. "
6 " The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids. "
7 " I don't have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful. "
8 " I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood. "
9 " I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet. "
10 " I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment. "
11 " My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students. "
12 " My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system. "
13 " I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me. "
