James McBride Quotes

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

I went to school on Senior Skip Day.

I got expelled from high school my freshman year.

I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

At Libertyville High, I was a bad student, chronic truant, and all-round incorrigible. I was forever being sent to the principal's office to be disciplined.

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

The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time.

I was quite badly behaved at school - I remember cutting class - and acting was a way of channelling energy.

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

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.

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

I got in trouble in Catholic school for rolling the waist of my skirt down.

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

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

Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter!

My interest in theatre started in high school, mostly because my dean forced me to do it. I was creating trouble in the hallways, so he demanded that I do something with my spare time.

My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble.

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 was a class clown; the nuns didn't like that.

I did my schooling at Holy Angels, where they had stringent rules. I coloured my hair blond and red and was pulled up by the principal.

Don't be guilty of ignoring symptoms of rebellion when your children are small. Don't simply excuse it as a stage they are going through and think that they will grow out of it. If you ignore it when they are small, you won't be able to handle it when they get older and the rebellion has had time to develop into a strong force.

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

I was a teenager, and I started to go to high school, and it was a disaster!

I had very bad temper tantrums. I was in more grammar schools than there are years of grammar school. I got kicked out of, like, two preschools, a kindergarten.