I didn't graduate eighth grade. I could have, but I got into too many fights in middle school.
I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers' unions, and the fact that teachers generally aren't observed in their classrooms, they can do whatever they want in class.
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.
I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent.
I was a bad egg. I didn't like going to class.
Government school education across India is in shambles.
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.
In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.
Too many children today are trapped in schools that don't work for them.
If more people got involved with their local schools, if more companies donated money, a lot of the problems that are plaguing our schools and our youth would disappear.
I got kicked out of school... I caused a lot of turbulence throughout those years.
I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.
You might be a redneck if your classes at school were cancelled because the path to the restroom was flooded.
Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.
I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.
Instead of unfairly demonizing teachers, we should be working with them to find solutions to the problems in our schools and make sure every child gets an outstanding public education.
I didn't get along with people at school.
I got expelled from every school I went to in Sydney.
I was thrown out of every school I ever went to.
I didn't have many friends; I was kind of bullied at school.
I didn't really fit with other kids. I had problems in school all my life and problems with authority. But my parents never did drugs or anything. They just believed in freedom in the best sense of the word.
Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.
It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.
Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.
