We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.
I worked as a barista and a kindergarten teacher. I really love kids and enjoyed every minute of being in a kindergarten.
I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
All the kids at the kindergarten had to play, or at least touch, the piano. It was a good start. Then, after kindergarten, all my friends took piano lessons, so I joined them.
I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.
When I was supposed to go to a certified kindergarten that's supposed to teach you actual things like how to read, I went to a daycare that my parents thought was a kindergarten. I was Crayola-ing inside the lines with no fundamental education at all. So I walked into the first grade with no formal education at all.
I did not even go to kindergarten; I just started first grade when I was five and started reading right away. I don't know how it all worked, but I had a lot of adults and older siblings around me. So, I guess I was probably introduced to what one would be introduced to at that time in kindergarten.
I've never been a Hollywood dropout.
I was a high-school dropout; I was a loner.
My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'
It is fashionable to be a college dropout, no? Like Steve Jobs.
I skipped 'College Dropout' and 'Late Registration' and went straight to '808s & Heartbreak.'
No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.
High school dropout rates nationally - Not enough is being done on this issue.
I'm a college dropout. My parents thought they had three respectable children, and I was the black sheep.