“I quit school because I didn't like recess.”
Robert Duvall - The Apostle E.F.

“- Sandra Gangel: What happened? School burned down, did it?
- Jamie Gangel: Yeah.
- Sandra Gangel: What was it this time? IRA bomb?
- Jamie Gangel: Fundamentalist Muslim pyromaniacs.
- Sandra Gangel: Oh, funny, that. Looked all right when I walked past it.”
Linda Henry - Sandra Gangel
Glen Berry - Jamie Gangel

“- Mr. Welch: Now I want you to do the bee today, okay?
- Akeelah: So everyone can call me a freak and a brainiac? No I ain't down for no spelling bee.
- Mr. Welch: Well, maybe you'd be down for spending the rest of the semester in detention for all your absences?”
Curtis Armstrong - Mr. Welch
Keke Palmer - Akeelah

“- School Principal: Is Dexter ill today?
- Francine Fishpaw: Why, no, Mr. Kirk. Dexter's in school.
- School Principal: I'm afraid he's not, Mrs. Fishpaw. Dexter's truancy problem is way out of hand, and the Baltimore County School Board have decided to expel Dexter from the entire public school system.”
Divine - Francine Fishpaw
George Hulse - School Principal

“- Francine Fishpaw: Dexter's been expelled from school!
- Cuddles Kovinsky: For what?
- Francine Fishpaw: For truancy!
- Cuddles Kovinsky: It's just those common Baltimore public schools. God, I wish I lived in Connecticut!”
Divine - Francine Fishpaw
Edith Massey - Cuddles Kovinsky