After my grandfather began to be successful, he returned to the village where he was born and founded a primary school.
The discipline, particularly in these urban schools for the poor, it's not controlled by the administration - they're controlled by the police. This is an expression of a racist logic that has now seeped directly into schools.
I never went to a modeling school, and I don't suggest to anybody that they go to a modeling school... In fashion, one day you're in, the next you're out.
I've been running since high school. My boyfriend was on the track team, and I'd run with him.
The fact is, when I was 15 and a sophomore at high school, I played on the varsity baseball team for the college.
I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.
In high school, I was sort of friends with the geeks and friends with the socials and everything else and not solidly in one camp. I've always lived on the borders.
I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.
My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.
As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.
The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.
I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.
I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.
I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.
I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementary's school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.
It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.
There's a lot of middle school behavior in Washington, D.C. I look at that and I say, 'I've seen that before,' it was just with a 14-year-old.
Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team.
I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.
Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.
