Kim Zolciak-Biermann Quotes

The inaccuracy issue. Going back to college having a 56-percent completion percentage. Obviously, it's not great. But I think that it's a little blown out of proportion.

I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.

I was in college for two years but I didn´t attend too much. Then I decided to drop out. I was having too many nightmares about failing in the exams.

If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.

I'm old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up.

All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.

I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.

It's my personality to be more quiet and reserved. I'm not going out every night to multiple things. I prefer to stay in and be with my children and do Spanish homework to make sure they get a good grade the next day.

Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.

Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

My journey started with the understanding that poor parents share the universal desire for education for their children. No family in our experience has ever turned down educational support for their daughter.

I was a really good student, first, second grade, third grade, and then fourth grade a little bit. And then I don't know what happened. I became a very terrible student. I wish I took it more serious.

My baby is obviously more important than anything else.

I know I haven't been the greatest student, but I do intend to get my degree. Otherwise, my mother will kill me.

My daughter's education is my priority.

My son's my number-one priority.

Generational disinterest in education means that too many young children lack the push from their parents in early years which can make the difference between success and failure in schools.

Thank God I had two parents who loved me enough to stay on my case.

All that matters to me now is my family.

My family is the most important thing in the world to me, too, before anything else.

When I come home, I'm not a basketball player, but "dad". While everyone sees me as an NBA player, to my boys, I'm just "dad" and that's very important.

I wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star.

My family is not a distraction. They're the most important thing in my life.

I was hopeless at high school - I failed everything but Latin.