“Respect the right of the teacher to teach and the students to learn.”
LaQuita Botorf,
". . .learning cannot occur unless our schools are safe and orderly places where teachers can teach and children can learn. Wherever there is chaos where there should be calm, wherever there is disorder where there should be discipline, make no mistake about it, it's not just a threat to our classrooms and to your mission, it is a threat to the strength and vitality
of America.”REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO THE 75TH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, New Orleans, LA, July 20, 1998.