A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.
Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.
I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
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.
Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.
The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.
While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.
I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.
I taught high school students Spanish.