School Changes Quotes

When I was ten, I went to seven schools in one year in Nova Scotia. Me and my mum moved there so that I could be closer to my dad, who is an ice-truck driver, but it didn't work out.

I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but also here in L.A. for five years.

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

I was in, like, nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.

Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it.

Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools.

My son William is only nine but he's had four public schools so far, one in Cornwall, one when I was at Sheffield, one in Beckenham when I was at Palace.

I went to seven different elementary schools.

I have studied in 14 schools.

Many Americans don't know anyone in the military, so they aren't aware that, on average, a military child attends six to nine schools by the time he or she graduates from high school. Through each transition, the children have to leave their friends, try out for new sports teams and adjust to a new school community.

I was out there meeting with a lot of working moms and whenever I would gather a group of women, there was always a voice that was unfamiliar to me, and it was the voice of a military spouse, oftentimes a woman, oftentimes working, many times in a position where they've had to move every two or three years, where their kids have had to change school multiple times, people dealing - families dealing with multiple deployments, dealing with the stresses of reconnection.

I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year.

I don't have any friends from my childhood because I didn't stay at one school for very long.

The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to change elementary schools six times.

I grew up in a family that moved around a lot. I changed schools eight or nine times.

You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.

When I was little, we moved around a lot, actually. In second grade, I think I went to three different schools. We were in Nevada and Oregon and as well as a few different places in Nebraska. I did go to high school in the same town.

I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.

I am an Air Force brat who grew up at various Air Force bases. I changed six schools in about five years and got stability for the first time when I was sent to a boarding school, Rishi Valley. I lived outside of a cantonment-style living and was among an eclectic mix of kids and got exposed to books and other things.

My dad was in the service, so I went to 12 schools in 13 years.

Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.

I changed schools a lot when I was in elementary school because some girls were mean. They were less mean in middle school, because I was doing all right; although this one girl gave me invitations to hand out to her birthday party that I wasn't invited to.

There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.

I went to 17 different schools when I was a kid. Every time I went to school, no matter what I talked like, it was always from the wrong place.