Brian Ortega Quotes

I was a high school throw-out.

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.

I got expelled from high school my freshman year.

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

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

I was thrown out of every school I ever went to.

I skipped school starting in tenth grade. I started doing badly and failed every class but English, so they kicked me out of school. They gave up on me.

I didn't graduate eighth grade. I could have, but I got into too many fights in middle school.

I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

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

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

I never finished high school. In fact, I hated going to school.

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

I was a horrible student. I really hated school.

I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.

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.

When I was homeschooled, I fell so behind - months behind at school - because I'm not good at keeping up. And so I had to sit down for literally three weeks to a month and just do all of it. And it was not fun, and I didn't want to do it, but I had to.

When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.

I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school.

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.