Johann Lamont Quotes

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices - public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the model that best equips their children for success.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother.

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

I'm probably one of the few people who can say I did all three types of state sector schooling.

I grew up in the public schools, my mom taught in them, and then my daughter is in them.

My husband and I are both proud public school graduates.

The vast majority of students in this country will continue to attend public schools.

I went to a fairly normal, middle-of-the-road public school in a suburb of New Orleans, but it gave me huge opportunities.

I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

I'm a very big public school advocate.

Albuquerque is my home. I want my kids and all of our children to be able to go to any public or charter school and receive an excellent education.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

the superiority of state over private education lies in the fact that in the former the teacher is responsible to society... The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

The number one issue facing cities isn’t crimes or jobs anymore, it’s public education.

It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.

I'm not knocking private schools, but I owe it to my kids to let them grow up in a place where private school isn't required. They're only in school 6-8 hours a day; they have to live in their neighborhood 24 hours a day. I didn't want them growing up in a place where anybody with the means had abandoned their public schools.

Equal access to public education has been achieved. But what is the good of access to a failing school?

These day schools did invaluable service in the days of the Colony and Commonwealth, and, indeed, in the early days of the Republic; but to their continuation must undoubtedly be ascribed the tardy recognition of the government and people of the fact that no agency for the education of the masses is as effective as the public school.... There is not one public school building owned by the government or by any city or township.

There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.

I'm a product of public schools. They are resource-challenged, and when you take those dollars away from public schools and send them to private schools, you're further starving the system.