School Anxiety Quotes

It's a terrible thing to say, but I hated school. I'm very ADD, and my report card always said, 'If only she performed to her potential.'

Our kids fear going to school in the morning, and their parents worry whether they will come home safely at the end of the day.

I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

I just never did like school.

You know when I was a kid, I hated every day I was in school, from the kindergarten right through to my last day of high school.

I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.

When my kids were very young, I have seen them crying, as they didn't want to go to school.

There were times when I was terrified to go to school because it felt like a jail sentence.

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

I want to talk about my very first play, when I was in eighth grade. One day, my English teacher, Mrs. Baker, announced that we were going to read 'On Borrowed Time' out loud in class. I was a mediocre student; I was terrified that she was going to call on me, so I hid my head.

I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.

In school, my biggest fear was that I couldn't produce emotion on cue.

School is a scary place for kids. So I didn't like it, and I didn't want to be there. And it was a great day for me when they threw me out.

I just hated school. I don't like to learn. Don't teach me anything!

I never like to put myself in the stories; in 'Lost in the City,' there are fourteen stories, and there's only one, 'The First Day,' about a little girl going to school, that has anything to do with me.

As a child, I just found a lot of things quite difficult. I found school quite overwhelming. There were just too many people. I wish I could have gone to a school with about five people. And if I saw someone bullying someone else, for example - I don't mean because I'm a perfect person, because I'm really not - but I'd always be, 'Well, why?'

My worst nightmare when I was in school was that I would get into trouble. I never got in trouble. I was a good student.

I don't like to think about what school was like for me.

When I was young, I didn't like going to school, but I loved my dad. He was my professor.

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

I didn't really enjoy school in general.

I think watching too much TV as a kid led me to being very uncomfortable in new situations. To this day, when I drop my kids off at school, I still feel like I'm in 9th grade and I'm uncomfortable and insecure. Like anyone is paying any attention.

Asking your children about their fears or worries about going back to school will help them share their burden.

I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.