“I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.” GivingTryingWellsEnoughSchoolFormLeftEasyBreakSupportTroubleHigh SchoolTwentiesForgottenOur FamilyCredence Author:Julia Leigh
“I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. My mother was a single mom, putting my three sisters through college, and I was such a bad student that I knew I had no right to take her money. But I loved being in classes and learning. I took in a huge amount of what I learned, but I had a feeling of always being behind and being in trouble.” KindFeelingsSchoolMotherThreeBehindsClassTroubleStudentsCollegeHugeMomAmountHigh SchoolGradesSingle MomThree Sisters Author:Louis C. K.
“In Texas a high school student was arrested for bringing what authorities thought was a bomb to school but turned out to be a clock. Now the kid is in bigger trouble for carrying a device that could bring Texas into the future.” KidsSchoolTroubleStudentsAuthorityHigh SchoolBiggerClockBombsDevicesTexasArrestedHigh School Students Author:Conan O'Brien
“Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.” SchoolTroubleHigh SchoolAthletics Author:Bill Fagerbakke
“I read that 36% of Latin kids drop out of high school, and we're the most bullied minority in schools right now. And my son had troubles in elementary school. So that made me really question being Latin in the United States.” MadeStatesKidsSchoolUnitedUnited StatesTroubleSonRight NowHigh SchoolMinoritiesMy SonLatinBulliedElementary School Author:John Leguizamo