Donna King Quotes

I haven`t been told those figures. We all know what we read in the paper about the budgets. I think the school has always been in the red, but not to that amount.

Honestly, I don`t think I would have been that quick or even thought to do that, ... I`m just grateful he`s OK, and I can`t thank my nephew enough for what he did.

She`s helping us learn that there are better choices.

Children now are pretty much forced to go to college.

I`ve taught everything, ... I`ve taught kindergarten. I`ve taught adult school at night. I taught math in high school for nine years. I think I have broad experience. I made a purpose to study multi-age education and how it benefits children.

I realize if I don`t get some standards about what I do or don`t do now, it`s going to be that much harder.

This school cannot be about me, ... I`ve always had a vision that this school would continue to grow. I knew it couldn`t stay this way.

Back in the 90s, sociologists studied what they called `boomerang children,` adult children who returned home or were in and out of their parents` home. What they found that it wasn`t because they were freeloaders. It was because the economy was bad.

In any classroom, all children are not on the same level, ... When I was a high school teacher, I stood in front of the class and taught algebra. But I learned before I left that I had to walk down the aisles and look at each person`s paper and see what each person is doing. That`s my philosophy. You teach individuals, you don`t teach algebra.

Every day after lunch we walk, ... Every child has a stop watch and a pedometer and every child has a spread sheet. They record their steps and their time every week and third-, fourth- and fifth-graders find the mean or the average of their steps and time.