Struggling Student Quotes

I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.

When I was homeschooled, I fell so behind - months behind at school - because I'm not good at keeping up. And so I had to sit down for literally three weeks to a month and just do all of it. And it was not fun, and I didn't want to do it, but I had to.

I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent.

Academically, I was thick. School wasn't bad, but I was.

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

I struggled academically throughout elementary school

I was so bad in school that acting gave me some kind of identity and gave me a home.

I was really rubbish at school.

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

When I read out loud in class, it was a joy for everyone else because I would mispronounce things so badly. I used to try to count how many people were in front of me and then work out which paragraph I would have to read out and start trying to learn it. And I would sit there thinking, 'Please let the bell go so that it doesn't get round to me.'

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

I was allergic to school. I was completely befuddled by school. I was trying so hard, but I couldn't succeed. I took geometry for four years, the same course over and over again, and I did not graduate with my senior class. I finally passed geometry after doing summer school, and eventually, I graduated.

I was a bad student. My teachers gave up trying to teach me how to read music.

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

I was not a great student.

In school, I was an underachiever.

I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.

I was a terrible student. For me, to take a book home was a trial.

I'm bad at math.

I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.

I was never good at math.

I sucked in school.

I was put in remedial everything.

I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.