Nick Diaz Quotes

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

I dropped out or got kicked out of four high schools.

I was a high school throw-out.

One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.

I got kicked out of high school, went to 3 different high schools and summer school and extra night school just so I could maybe graduate and try to make it up, because I flunked pretty much my entire freshman year, mainly because I just never showed up.

I got expelled from high school my freshman year.

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school.

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

I got kicked out of every school I ever went to.

In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.

I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.

Repeating third grade at a new school, after having been asked to leave my old one for hitting kids who made fun of my perceived stupidity, I was placed in the 'dummy class.'

I was a huge bookworm, total nerd, so I was a victim in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, so I was an easy target.

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm, and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

I got expelled from every school I went to in Sydney.

I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'

One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.

Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.

Our youth of today, it is to be feared, is backward to learn; studies are accounted irksome.

I failed eighth grade twice, and then they moved me up to ninth grade. Then I failed that and dropped out. My teacher would hand me a test, and I'd grade it myself with an F, then put my head down on the desk.