The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.
And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.
I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.
I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.
I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.
Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.
Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.
I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.
I went to high school with girls that would daydream about what strip club they wanted to work at. That's one of the sad things about Vegas.
For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.
A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.
I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.
I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after IU, I went on to study at the Academy of Arts in Philadelphia. I graduated in 2006.
In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.
I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.
As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.
People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island.
There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.
It's a brave new world. I'm 42 years old. I certainly wasn't out in high school.
