School Challenges Quotes

When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.

You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.

World Children's Day is meant to be a fun celebration but it's also a day to talk about serious issues that children have to face in school.

As a teenager, I was in the Carlisle schoolboy scheme and while I was excited to join at first, I look back on it as a tough few years.

I was at a pretty rough school, and the only thing I was good at was art.

I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.

Fortunately for me, I ran across some girls I could get along with so I could enjoy high school life okay, but it must be awful for kids who don't get along with anybody. We're different from our parents, a completely different species from our teachers. And kids who are one grade apart you are in a different world altogether. In other words, we're basically surrounded by enemies and have to make it on our own.

Many children struggle in schools... because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn.

Actually creating a positive school climate, particularly in schools that are in communities that are themselves not calm and orderly, is hard work.

If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.

My regular school didn't know what to do with me!

I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was seven, and it was a bit of a struggle to begin with. It was a challenge as I began my school career - spelling and reading was something I couldn't really get my head around.

The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.

I was lucky. My children didn't have health issues, didn't have big school problems, etc. And as I watched some of my peers go through this, you can see how quickly a family can get derailed when they are not lucky.

Educators and school personnel work on the front lines of childhood obesity, but every day they face the challenges of budget cuts, mandated tests, rushed lunch periods, and a decrease in time for physical activity.

I've visited schools all across our state, and the message is clear. Our kids have needs today, and our educators need more resources to do their jobs.

I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown.

My poor kids have accepted that being dropped off late to birthday parties, practices, and yes, school, is just part of the large family package.

I'm quite dyslexic in school.

Middle and high school sucked.

There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it.

In some of our public schools drugs are easier to obtain than text books.

I didn't have indoor plumbing. I'd go to school dirty. I didn't have lunches.