Where I'm from, you focus on finishing school. Even finishing college is seen as a stretch - you just get a job after school, and that's it.
There was definitely no time in grades 11 and 12 to do any other sports. That was one downside; I really enjoyed playing other sports.
In the drive to improve reading and mathematics, the schools have not just put history on the back burner. They have taken it off the stove.
What we want is more learning in schools and less activism in schools.
It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.
School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.
I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That comes first. My mother always told me that came first.
A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.
I haven't even been thinking about it really. I'm just going to talk to coach. We will have a team meeting when we go back and (I'm) just (going to) focus on school.
In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.
I think at the age I'm at, it's really hard for a film career, and I'm at a point in my life where I thought it would be a good idea to be a part of a good show and to be able to finish school.
Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.
