Political Quotes

“Let me thank the gentleman. He is absolutely correct. We have talked about after hours, and I just wanted to make a point of that, because I have been in a number of schools where they actually have an after hours program for a number of students who have difficulty at home. They drop out of school. They decide they want to come back to the public schools, they do not want to go to the community college and get a GED. They want to get their high school diploma. And I know it is happening in North Carolina, where they actually can come to school at night, have a full-time job during the day because they have to earn a living. They may have already gotten married early, but they want to get their degree, and this happens. The public schools are changing. We can put together another special order very shortly, hopefully before this week is out, and actually talk about some of these things, but more importantly talk about the strengths of our public schools, the academic things that are happening. Our schools certainly have a lot of challenges today, but they are meeting those challenges in a way they have never met them, because as both of my friends have said this evening, they are working harder, our teachers are working hard, they are committed, and we have some of the best qualified people in those classrooms we have ever had and the leadership, the principalship. I think we need to talk about it.”