Bill Engvall Quotes

A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.

I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.

By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did I do wrong?" What you did wrong was, you were never there. You had the kid as a status symbol, that's what went wrong. And you're paying the price for it.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.

Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

Most of my teachers didn't like me. I didn't get good grades because I pretty much lived at the public access studio. I tried to be the class clown, so I spent a lot of time in detention.

Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.

Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.

My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.

Going to talk to my little girl's teacher is a far cry from what people probably think I spend my time doing.

Kids who are the victims of broken families are more likely to end up in poverty, rehab, or jail. I'm a Republican, but I respect President Obama for setting the right example and addressing this problem.

Suspension and expulsion are tied to a host of short- and long-term consequences. For some students, zero-tolerance policies in schools lead directly to involvement in the criminal justice system.

When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.

I was a talker back in elementary school. I used to get A's and B's in everything, but I got an F in conduct.

I got kicked out of all Gwinnett schools 'cause I got in a fight, and I had to go to military school.

Trouble was almost inevitable. I grew up with so many at-risk kids. Kids had things go wrong.

These days, teachers have it rough. Kids can be hyperactive, disobedient, and obnoxious. It must feel like being locked in a room of drunk midgets.

In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out of school. A few lickings from my dad got me out of that scene. He wore me out with a paddle.

There are the class clowns that are disruptive and the kids laugh and you earn the teacher's disdain, I was the kind of class clown that also cracked the teacher up. I was funny in a way that was not dissing the teacher; I was funny just to be funny.

Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

I don't want to get high with my kids, because then everything is different forever. That's so stupid, I think.

When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three late marks for being over fifteen minutes late you’d get an after school detention. I got something like 257 marks. And I only lived about ten minutes away.

Early in my school career, I turned out to be an incorrigible disciplinary problem. I could understand what the teacher was saying as fast as she could say it, I found time hanging heavy, so I would occasionally talk to my neighbor. That was my great crime, I talked in school.