Violence is black children going
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years’ worth of education.
– Julian Bond
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- During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity. –
- There is a thin line between politics and theatricals. – Julian Bond
- As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. – Julian Bond
- As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. – Julian Bond
- Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years. – James W. Black
- Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment that’s 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math. – Denise Juneau
- There are millions of children today who don’t attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country. – Azim Premji
- Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to improve the diet of children in schools and improving school meals, but the net effect was the number of children eating school meals in many of these places didn’t go up, it went down. – Andrew Lansley
- “If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.” – Lenny Bruce
- If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. – Lenny Bruce