Political Quotes

“In my district, well in North Carolina as a State, over the next 10 years, we are projected to be the fifth fastest growing State in the Nation in school population. We cannot build schools fast enough. Yet, I went by a school, visited a school earlier this morning where my children used to go. It is a fairly new school by school standards. They had trailers all over the place. All the inside interior of the building, like the gentleman from New York was saying, the lounge was now a classroom. It was never built for a classroom. It was a small area where one was tutoring students. That is not acceptable. That is not acceptable. They are doing it, but it is not acceptable. One can talk about these principles, and one can teach them, and teachers can reinforce them. But children also understand that somewhere along the line somebody is not being quite honest with them when they say they do not have the resources when they see other nice new buildings going up or they think they are not really caring whether other things are happening when they could provide those resources. Children do not know what they need. They only know what they get.”