Lucy McBath Quotes

All of our students should feel safe and supported when they go to school.

Every child deserves to attend school in a safe, supportive environment where they can learn, thrive, and grow.

I think it's really important that the anti-bullying messages get into schools and become a staple in every school.

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

I consider protecting all students, including LGBTQ students, not only a key priority for the Department, but for every school in America.

Every child has a right to learn in an environment that is safe.

If learners do not have a roof under which they can learn we are already setting them up for failure.

Yes, it gets better, but I also understand that saying to a 15-year-old that, 'Oh, don't worry, just wait a year', is like saying 'Wait a lifetime', but every single person has the right to go to school and not be afraid.

Of course, learning is strengthened and solidified when it occurs in a safe, secure and normal environment.

The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.

I went to a regular school... education kept me sane.

There were certainly no spells at my school. More like a smack in the mouth.

For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children.

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights ... at the school house door.

Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.

Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.

Our schools should be sanctuaries of learning, not nightmares of cruel and racist behavior.

Every child should feel safe at school without feeling like a prisoner.

I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

If you want to help arm the schools, arm them with school supplies, books, therapists - things they actually need and can make use of.

Do I think that, when we're teaching a book at school, should we go through a myriad list of trigger warnings? No. But I understand why people desire it.

I started at Grand View and all the England stuff. I just wanted to learn and get better, and that's kind of what the experiences were.

I was in high school when Columbine happened.

My four years in college, I cherished very much the opportunity to be able to stay at home.