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Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

It's really important that people know about it and the issue in schools because it happens every day to people and it really hurts when people get bullied.

There's tremendous shame with being bullied. I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen.

While I wouldn't wish being teased on anyone, I think it eventually leads to a kind of solidarity in adult life. The few people I know who weren't picked on in school are people I find I can't relate to on much more than a surface level. There's a sensitivity that comes with feeling like an outsider at some point in your life.

When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing.

I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.

I don't let everyone pick me up. I only let myself be picked up by whomever I want to be picked up by.

I got picked on a lot as a kid.

Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.