TABLE 6.

Representative Quotes Related to School Role

Participant	Quote
Jane	Mainly at school that is when my headaches hit a real high. When I’m at home, I do not have symptoms because…when I’m resting then my headaches just go down. I want to go to school because I hate the feeling of being behind in school. I want to go to school, but my headaches and me being tired just holds me back.…Before [my concussion] I would study the night before a test and I would remember everything on it and now I have to study for twice that amount of time and I only remember half of it.
Andrew	My grades started going downhill. I was a straight-A honor student and started getting Ds and Cs.…We got my weight lifting class dropped so [that] I come in to second hour every morning, so I [can] sleep in an extra hour. I got a 504 at school so the teachers have to help me if I need an extra day to study for my tests or an extra day to turn in my homework, I will just send them an email the night before and they will let me do that.
Benjamin	Before I was able to just lock in on a class subject or what we were studying that day. Now I really have to force myself to just you know, just really lock in and pay attention to what the teacher is saying or I’ve also noticed it with homework. I’m having a really hard time either just starting my homework, getting it started. I get sidetracked and I never really got sidetracked or anything like that before the concussion and I’m having a really hard time finishing, because I’ll start thinking about something else like just randomly in the middle of it and I’ll lose focus. I have to get myself back to doing homework.
Greg	Um, it’s been a little bit harder because I’m in class and I get this headache while they’re trying to teach a lesson and I get focused on the headache and I can’t pay attention to the headache and the lesson at the same time. And it’s just hard for me, like I can remember like my homework and stuff because I can barely remember what we did in the class.