Children Quote by Topaz Page-Green

There is a belief that children drop out of school because they're needed by their families to work, or the little girls are needed…

— Nicholas Negroponte

Students come to school hungry, and that affects how they study and read and prepare.

— Maverick Carter

School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies a day…

— Drew Barrymore

In a lot of First Nations and different rural communities, kids go to school hungry.

— Carey Price

The fact that most kids aren't eating at home with their families any more really means they are eating elsewhere. They are eating out…

— Alice Waters

Kids who participate in school meal programs get roughly half of their calories each day at school. ... This is an extraordinary responsibility. But…

— Michelle Obama

Since children spend many of their waking hours at school, eating up to two meals a day there, we need to place a special…

— Joshua Rosenthal

There's a perception that's been put out into the marketplace by No Child Left Behind that schools aren't doing enough for kids.

— Mark Jackson

Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.

— Nicholas Negroponte

School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.

— Albert Shanker

“The negative impact chronic absenteeism has on school success is increased because students who are chronically absent in one year are often chronically absent…

— Terry Marselle

When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps…

— George McGovern