School Change Quotes

Support charters; insist on change for failing schools.

At the age of 14, I moved across town to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where science played a much larger role in the curriculum.

The truth is, for many young people, the changing schools or starting a new academic year is really difficult to deal with.

I started high school in L.A., but I went to public school in New York.

I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.

Once, in third grade, we switched classes and nobody knew until our mother stepped in.

Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

I was at Wortley Juniors until I was about 12 and then left for a season at Farsley.

I went to the University of Maryland for a year and was considering maybe, you know, being a medical doctor but decided my other interest was maybe flying airplanes in the Navy and just kind of changed my mind and changed schools and changed majors and decided to focus a hundred percent on that.

While my seemingly compulsive school-hopping has raised some eyebrows among my peers and caused my parents understandable consternation, I do not regret it.

I transferred schools in high school, so I've been the new girl on the block.

I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.

I was a total nerd and had, like, two friends, and then I left my school and got signed to a record deal.

When I went to college, I wasn't really happy at there, and I really wanted to come home. Mind you, I auditioned for 'The Wiz' the day after I came home from college. I wanted to come home and try to go to a new school.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.

Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls all had to change schools.

I didn't like my first primary school in Leicester very much. As I was going home on my tricycle one day, I said, 'There's no reading, no writing and no arithmetic - it's really boring!' So I was sent to St John the Baptist Church of England Primary.

The bullying was so bad that I got to go to the arts high school instead.

I went to Samuel Ayer High School, which is now Milpitas High School.

I was valedictorian of my class until I switched to a neighboring high school, but I maintained the grades and involvement. Switching schools was tough.

I think girls have a harder time than guys do if you're switching schools. Guys don't get picked on as long as you're OK in sports.

I went to a Catholic girls' school before we moved to Florida when I was 15.