Chi McBride Quotes

I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.

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.

Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team.

In high school, I was not as much of a grade-follower. I kind of enjoyed more of the social aspect of high school.

Golly, I hated high school.

I went to Manhattan Center High School.

My high school experience was very different than the high school experience on 'Skins.'

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.

I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania.

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

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.

I loved school. Not sure how much I focused on the education; just had fun and played lacrosse for seven years. It was lucky I had sport, which I was good at, so it didn't matter that I wasn't great on the academic side, or not brilliant at drama. Although I am still bitter about not being in the school choir. Furious, actually.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.

I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion with 600 other kids, no home-cooked food, no made-to-order clothes. It was a shock, but I adjusted.

I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.

In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot.

High school was so much fun, and it wasn't a wreck at all.

I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.

The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.