- Sheryl Holt: Well, I could join the "Gwyneth Club"
- [shows three girls who look exactly like Gwyneth Paltrow]
- Walter Harrelson: You told my son that giving him the ball is not the answer. Best he learn that now. Best he learn that in eighth grade, or seventh grade, or even sooner, don't you think, Ms. Davis? Now maybe I failed some things as his dad, but this school failed him, too. These teachers here kept promoting him, didn't they? This school never got him the message. And now you're trying to send it? Now when college scouts are coming, now when football is about to deliver him an education at the University, now you people want to rise up and deliver him the message that athletics ain't everything?
- [Harry just shot three blank rounds from his gun, all the students are cowering under their desks in fear]
- Harry Senate: [jubilant] Aren't these things GREAT! Hell, you can use them to kill a classmate.
- [angry]
- Harry Senate: Maybe even shoot a TEACHER! Yeah, you kids really know what to respect! Stay down there until I tell you to get up!
- [Kevin is protesting the inaccuracies of the class textbook]
- Kevin Jackson: Jefferson used to sleep with his slaves. The book don't say nothin' about that. They don't even say how he even had slaves. Washington neither. So I don't see why I should bust my *black ass* reading about a bunch of lies.
- Harvey Lipschultz: Well, you see Mr. Jackson, my job is to see that you get your BLACK ASS into college. And whether these things in these books be lies or not, your achievement tests that you will be taking are standardized. And you'll have to know all these untruths in order for you to pass them, and how many slaves Jefferson had sex with will not be on the test. And if you fail American History, Mr. Jackson, you'll be sitting here again next year. And you'll have to listen all over again to what my *shriveled, white, JEWISH ASS* has to say!
- [Dana is not wearing a bra, causing her nipples to poke through her top]
- Harvey Lipschultz: It's OBSCENE!
- Dana Poole: It's NOT obscene! You just have a problem with the female body.
- Harvey Lipschultz: Young lady, the female body...
- Steven Harper: HARVEY!
- Harvey Lipschultz: Look at those breasts.
- Dana Poole: [indignant] Why are you looking, you PERV!
- Harvey Lipschultz: I will NOT tolerate this DISRESPECT!
- [Guber has walked in on an unattended, rowdy classroom]
- Scott Guber: Ms. Washington, where's Ms. Hendricks?
- Washington: We think she's dead, sir.
- Scott Guber: And why do you think that, Ms. Washington?
- [Ms. Washington points to words on a chalkboard: GONE TO KILL MYSELF, HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY!]