John Williams School Quotations

Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

As soon as we found out that he was arrested, we moved into action. We told the school that he is no longer there, and I'm going to assign him somewhere there are no children available.

If we asked the various families to buy computers, this would only have widened the digital divide. So the school superintendent and the supervisors insisted that this be a grass-roots effort. We wanted to ensure that all the children in the sixth grade would have the opportunity to be a part of this.

What was so scary about it was it was still school time, the kids were walking around. There as a group of kids right there when I took off to help her. They shouldn't chase people around the neighborhoods like this especially with the school at the corner. They should have let up a long time ago.

Preliminary indications from the school indicate (the student) probably said it in passing, as an off-hand joke. But you don't just joke around about things like that. Of all the times in the world to make a joke about bombing a school, this was clearly not the time.

Schools need to illustrate the connection between curriculum and the real world. Students can spout back lessons but they don't know what it means.

Every day, we get concerned about the age of the school buses in this county. You've got to keep in mind that they're built as buses to start with, and they carry young people who may not treat them as if they were their very own, so to have these buses running 13 or 14 years ... is not the best way to do business.