Education Policy Quotes

“For those of you that are unaware, failure is an option. If you really want to be that school district that removes failure from the equation,
then you as a district are failing your students. Students need to understand that failure is part of life—it happens. And whether you like it or not, they will have a much more difficult time when they get out of school succeeding
because you as a school have never let them
experience failure, nor have you given them the opportunity to know what it means to
learn from that which they did not the first
time understand.”
― Fröderick Frankensteen, No Diploma Left Behind

“In other words, the majority of extra money, if not all, will disappear as it slowly funnels through the chain of bureaucracy over at the district office.”
― Fröderick Frankensteen, System Failure: A First-Hand Account From The Trenches Of A Revolving Door School District

“The students come first... because they are the foundational basis of funding.”
― Fröderick Frankensteen, System Failure: A First-Hand Account From The Trenches Of A Revolving Door School District

“Show me a nation with a huge defense budget, I'll show you a retarded nation. Show me a nation with a huge education budget, I'll show you a nation of the future.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch