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Tuesday 14th of April 2026

2014 midterm elections Obama's the reason common core curriculum is gonna fry your kids' brains and turn them against you Republican campaign theme © 2015 Kwiple.com
Academic achievement Boys who fail at school grow into men who are likely to struggle in life. Poorly educated men face a brutal labor  market, as job opportunities in traditionally male, blue-collar occupations evaporate. Among men with only a high-school education, one in three is out of the labor force. For those who have a job, typical earnings are $881 a week, down from $1,017 in 1979. Richard Reeves, Atlantic Magazine, October 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Academic achievement But I believe the biggest reason for boys' classroom struggles is simply that male brains develop more slowly than female brains — or at least those parts of the brain that enable success in the classsroom. The gaps in brain development are clearly visible around the age of 5, and they persist through elementary and middle school. … The brain-development trajectories of boys and girls diverge further, and most dramatically, as adolescence progresses — with the widest gaps around the age of 16 or 17. I hardly need to say that these are crucial years for educational achievement. … From a strictly neuroscientific perspective, the education system is tilted in favor of girls. Richard Reeves, Atlantic Magazine, October 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Academic achievement Do you realize there are twelve-year old kids in this country who can't spell the name of the teacher they're having sex with? Bill Maher © 2015 Kwiple.com
Academic achievement If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform 1983 report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Academic achievement In the U.S., almost one in five boys does not graduate high school on time, compared with one in 10 girls — the rate for boys is about the same as that for students from low-income families. Richard Reeves, Atlantic Magazine, October 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
American exceptionalism The one thing I want my child to know when they get out of school about America is that the worst day in America beats the best day in any other country. A Texas parent, now probably a school board member, testifying at a 2010 review of Texas's standards for teaching history © 2022 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say [Critical race theory] has really become the default ideology of the public education system. Christopher F. Rufo © 2022 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say The woke class wants to teach kids to hate each other, rather than teaching them how to read. Ron DeSantis, strawman argument against teaching children about America's encounter with racism © 2021 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Average acceptance rate at New York City public high schools with test-based admission: 2.7 At Ivy League universities: 8.0 Harper's Index, June 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Factor by which a teacher in a “low-minority” school is more likely to be certified than one in a “high-minority” school: 4 Harper's Index, December 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Factor by which more Americans died in school shootings than in combat last year: 3 Harper's Index, August 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Value of food stamps used at U.S. military commissaries last year: $66,978,704 Chances a child in school on a U.S. military base is eligible for free or reduced-cost meals: 2 in 5 Harper's Index, July 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus Every day when I walk into work as a public-school teacher, I am prepared to take a bullet to save a child. In the age of school shootings, that's what the job requires. But asking me to return to the classroom amid a pandemic and epose myself and my family to Covid-19 is like askiing me to take that bullet home to my own family. I won't do it, and you shouldn't want me to. From an op-ed piece in the New York Times, July 18, 2920, by a high school teacher in Mount Vernon, WA © 2020 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed officers in every single school in this nation. Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President, National Rifle Association  © 2015 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say I would imagine there's a gun in the school to protect from potential grizzlies. Betsy DeVos, Trump's education secretary nominee, explaining why states should be allowed to decide whether to ban guns from schools such as the one near Yellowstone Park, home to more than 700 grizzlies © 2016 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say Betsy DeVos is the only thing that should be fired inside a school Placard, March For Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say I can't even bring peanut butter to school Placard, New York City, March For Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun control activists say When I said I'd rather die than go to math class? That was hyperbole, assholes  Placard, March For Our Lives rally, March 24, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say If teachers were armed, fewer students would be killed © 2018 Kwiple.com
Gun violence For the weary White House, Florida shooting offered a ‘reprieve’ from scandals  headline, Washington Post, February 19, 2018, referring to Trump White House officials admitting to feelings of temporary relief because press coverage of the killings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, pushed reports of spousal abuse by White House officials, Cabinet secretaries charging taxpayers for luxury travel, Trump's affair with a Playboy centerfold, Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russians for interfering in our elections, Jared Kushner and other White House officials lacking permanent security clearances, etc. from the front pages © 2018 Kwiple.com
Income inequality High-income families now spend, on average, seven times as much each year on education as lower- income families, up from four times in the 1970s … From 2007 to 2011, while the broader economy was weak, enrollment at private schools with with tuition averaging $28,340 jumped 36 percent … New York Times, March 22, 2013, in an article about a competitive polo team being created at the recently founded and pretentiously named Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida, which will train at Wall Street Farm, a nearby riding school © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Amend the Constitution to prohibit using tax dollars to support private or religious schools © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Require private schools that accept vouchers for special-education students to provide them with the same rights and services public schools must provide © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Require private schools that accept vouchers for special-education students to test and publicly report on their academic achievement © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Rich kids don't attend for-profit schools © 2016 Kwiple.com
Liars say The transgender thing is incredible. Think of it. Your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child. Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com
Local politics I would rather have a thousand school board members than one president and no school board members. Ralph Reed, 1996 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Making money the new-fashioned way Selling bulletproof backpacks for schoolkids © 2019 Kwiple.com
Reading For thiry years, very young children have gone to schools and been told that reading is an exercise in seeking confirmation of what they already know — these chikdren who are  at the beginning of knowing anything at all. It's as it we've been training them to be algorithms, honing their ability to make predictions rather than their capacity to enter the minds of others. Christine Smallwood, New York Review of Books, February 9, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Reading Mirrors are ultimately isolating; young readers also need windows, even if the view is unfamiliar, even if it’s disturbing. The ability to enter a world that's far away in time or place; to grapple with characters whose stories might initially seem to have nothing to do with your life; to gradually sense that their emotions, troubles, revelations are also yours — this connection through language to universal human experience and thought is the reward of great literature, a source of empathy and wisdom. George Packer, Atlantic Monthly, March 10, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Curtailing enforcement of laws prohibiting discrimination in education is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Curtailing enforcement of laws requiring schools to reduce/address sexual harassment and violence is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Cut funding for public schools, raise it for charter schools © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Letting people carry firearms on school property is change we believe in © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Privatize public schools © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Sacrifice public education, health care and infrastructure on the altars of military spending and tax cuts for corporations and the rich  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Taking money away from public schools to fund private schools that discriminate against LGBTQ and other students is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Teachers? We don't need no public school teachers!  © 2015 Kwiple.com
Rule by law The lawsuit [filed by Parents' Choice Tennessee, a conservative activist group created specifically for the purpose] may have been designed, in part, to give the impression there was more opposition to Wit & Wisdom [English and Language Arts curriculum] than actually existed.  There are eighteen thousand students in the [Williamson County, Tennessee] district's elementary schools, but according to a district report only thirty-seven people  had complained about the new curriculum. Fourteen of the complainants had no children in the system. Paige Williams, The New Yorker, November 7, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
School spending Right now, we collectively spend about 1,000 times more per student on science,  technoloy, engineering and math education than we do on history and civics. Where civics education is taught, it is often hampered by a lack of consensus about what to teach and how. Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, 2021/03/01, signed by six former U.S. education secretaries: Lamar Alexander, Arne Duncan, John King, Rod Paige, Richard Riley, Margaret Spellings © 2021 Kwiple.com
Schoolgirls joining ISIS This is what happens in the twenty-first century when you're trying to piss off your parents and there's no black guys in town to have sex with. Larry Wilmore, The Nightly Show, March 26, 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Schools Across America, the large mass of kids in the middle – the ones without money, book smarts, or athletic prowess –  were outsiders in their own schoosls. Few others cared about what they felt or believed or experienced. They were the unspecial and unpromising, looked down upon by and almost completely separated from the college-bound crowd. Life was already understood to be a game of winners and losers; they were the designated losers, and they resented it. The most consis- tent message these students had received was that their lives were of less value than others'. Is it so surprising that some of them find satisfaction in a politics that says, essentially, Screw 'em all? Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, Oct. 2, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Schools The heavy reliance on state and local funding means that our country's nonwhite school districts get about $23 billion less every year than white school districts, even though they serve the same number of children. Elizabeth Warren, Persist © 2021 Kwiple.com
Schools No transgender, no operations, you know they take your kid. There are some places. Your boy leaves the school, comes back a girl, OK. Without parental consent. What is that all about? And they talk about a threat to democracy; they’re a threat. Donald Trump's response when asked what he would do to improve public schools in the Bronx © 2024 Kwiple.com
Schools Principal transfers upset parents headline, Des Moines Register, May 12, 2001 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Schools The South gave the Negro the best education fitted for the life he was to iive. He was trained to the school of discipline and self-control … He was taught to do every necessary thing and to do it well … Where can you find a more varied and valuable education? Mildred Lewiss Rutherford © 2023 Kwiple.com
Schools  Unless our children begin to learn together, there is little hope that our people will ever learn to live together. Thurgood Marhall, dissent in Milliken v. Bradley © 2022 Kwiple.com
Schools When I graduated from high school in 1973, less than two-thirds of black students  attended predominantly non-white schools; by 2018, 81 per cent did. Moreover, the percentage of black students in majority white schools almost halved between 1991 and 2018, from 34.5 to 19.1 per cent. Patti Waldmeir, Financial Times, November 14, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Science education Government-supported early education [in the United States] is funded mainly at the state and local level … and because science courses are the most expensive per student, few schools in relatively poor districts can afford to offer many of them. Students from these districts therefore end up being less prepared for university-level science than are their wealthier peers, many of whom attended well-appointed private schools. Nature, Vol. 537, 22 September 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution. Rick Perry © 2015 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Charter schools are better than other schools © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord. Jay Sekulow © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Teacher tenure is why our schools are failing © 2015 Kwiple.com
State of the union c We're the world's leader in active shooter drills, by far and by necessity  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest “Scholars” attend charter schools, “students” attend public schools  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say HBCUs [Historically Black Colleges and Universities] are real pioneers when it comes to school choice. They are living proof that when more options are provided to students, they are afforded greater access and greater quality. Their success has shown that more options help students flourish. Betsy DeVos © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses. Jeff Landry, governor of Louisiana, on signing a law that mandates displaying the Ten Commandments in every classroom in every public school and college in the state [Moses lived about 1,000 yeare after Ur-Nammu codified laws in ancient Sumer] © 2024 Kwiple.com
 
Trumpists say  We’re not here on this earth to please man — we're here to please God. Leigh Wambsganss, executive director, Patriot Mobile Action, a conservative Christian nationalist group intent on taking over schoolboards everywhere in America © 2022 Kwiple.com