Political Quotes

“public schools are always going to be important in this country. They have been important across the country and they are important right here in Washington, DC. But our public schools are broken in this city. We have tried a lot of things in the last couple of years to try to bring them away. The truth is, the minority party had their way for years in developing this city and this city's schools, and we have an entirely broken system. We are looking for solutions. We believe that the public school system will continue to be very important for the children in this community, but we need to stop talking about what is good for the adults in this system. We need to think about the children. You only get to be 6 years old one time in your life. You only get to be 7 years old one time in your life. If we get it right, if we put our heads together and we deal with the systemic, broken system, maybe in 5 years, maybe in 10 years we can fix this entirely broken system. But in the meantime, the 6-year-olds that only get to be 6 once should not be trapped in an absolutely broken school system. Every mom and dad, and I think of me and my six children, go to sleep every night worrying about the school their child is going to go to the next morning: Will they be safe and will they learn something? There is nothing more tortuous than when your child gets into a classroom and you do not believe that they can learn in that classroom.”