Quotes by Donna King

“Ive taught everything, ... Ive taught kindergarten. Ive 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.”

“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 persons paper and see what each person is doing. Thats my philosophy. You teach individuals, you dont 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.”

“This school cannot be about me, ... Ive always had a vision that this school would continue to grow. I knew it couldnt stay this way.”

“Honestly, I dont think I would have been that quick or even thought to do that, ... Im just grateful hes OK, and I cant thank my nephew enough for what he did.”

“Shes helping us learn that there are better choices.”

“I havent 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.”

“I realize if I dont get some standards about what I do or dont do now, its going to be that much harder.”

“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 wasnt because they were freeloaders. It was because the economy was bad.”

“Children now are pretty much forced to go to college.”