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“When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.”

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Author:Christine Gregoire

“Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.”

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Author:Kamala Harris

“Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.”

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Author:Pat Paulsen

“America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.”

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Author:Colin Powell

“Justin [Di Cioccio] was [at Laguardia School of Arts]. He later took over at Manhattan. But I knew Justin through the McDonald's band, which at the time I was finishing high school and starting college, I got involved with. I was not that heavily involved with the school at MSM my first year there. I took a semester off to start my 2nd year. Took classes I felt like taking during my third semester, but by the start of my third year, September of '86, they began the undergraduate jazz program and I joined that program.”

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Author:Jon Gordon

“I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.”

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Author:Macklemore

“At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.”

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Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.”

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Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“I remember once in high school the umpire called me out at third base when I was sure I was safe. I got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed it to him and said, 'Try this.' I got such a laugh you wouldn't believe.”

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Author:Peter Falk