The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.

I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

This is a public relations problem that you have.