Dropping Out Of School Quotes

• Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.

  Adam Fletcher

  School, People, Dropping Out

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• I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Fall, School, Mean

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• Anyway GONE. My goal in writing GONE To creep you out. To make you stay up all night reading then roll into school tired the next day so that you totally blow the big test and end up dropping out of school. GONE. Imagine a world where every adult vanishes in an instant.

  Michael Grant

  Reading, Writing, Tired

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• I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.

  Joe Klein

  Believe, School, Inappropriate Behavior

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• I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way to redefine affirmative action. I grew up with poor white people in West Virginia, and I know there's a culture of poverty. I know that I've seen white people perform exactly the same pathological forms of behavior as Black people do when they're systematically deprived, whether it's getting pregnant, doing drugs, dropping out of school, whatever we're talking about. I think that we should have affirmative action for poor white people too.

  Henry Louis Gates

  School, Thinking, Virginia

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.

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• We have to invest in our kids, we have to invest in our communities, we have to create jobs. We have to make certain that kids are not dropping out of school and hanging out on street corners.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing. I must say that Rush Limbaugh is increasingly becoming a warning to kids of the perils of dropping out of school.

  Arianna Huffington

  Kids, School, Littles

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