“The principal, Mr. Yodelbean, sent out bulletins to all the classrooms that said if anybody was going to be late, they were going to be punished.”
Phil Gordon - Flash Hercules

“Being suspended is like getting a paid vacation. Why do they think it's a punishment? It's like your dog pees on the carpet and you give him a treat. Then you get in trouble for skipping school, it's so stupid!”
Jessica Campbell - Tammy Metzler

“I'm not going to expel you. Three schools have done that and it's obviously done nothing for your character... I'm going to do much worse. I am going to keep you here until you graduate. It'll probably take years at this rate.”

Louis Gossett Jr. - Dean Parker

“- Dewey Finn: You know what? You don't have to worry about me 'cos i'm tough. If a kid gets outta line, I got no problem, smackin' 'em in the head.
- Rosalie Mullins: No. No, we don't use corporal punishment here.
- Dewey Finn: Okay, so just... verbal abuse?”

Jack Black - Dewey Finn
Joan Cusack - Rosalie Mullins

“Cheating is a hell of a lot worse than being stupid. Plagiarism is an academic crime. It is punishable by academic death.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Roland Sharp