People who drop out of education early

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I got a little lucky in high school... there just weren't that many people that were complete as*holes...

That being said, college is 74275098475093759807094725098x better than hs ever was...

I almost dropped out thrice. I wish I'd have done it at a time when I still could, nut would I drop out now, then four years of education were even more of a waste than it is now anyway.

I almost dropped out because I don't get along with school work, the expectations and because I'm severely bored by not being challenged. I feel like this: I sit in school, I know what the teacher is talking about, I'm already advanced compared to the class, but not a person can understand what I say and it's frustrating when communication results in a big failure.

I don't mind the boredom of school itself. I was put in a lower school in my teenage years because of autistic behaviour (and nobody knowing what it's about). And I was very bored intellectually. But I enjoyed being there because I could participate in the lessons and people accepted it if I had to explain myself.

Now in the higher school it's just all horrible and annoying. You have to answer what the teacher wants to hear. Teachers demand that you either think like them or stop thinking.

I tried to drop out at the start of my last year of High School but they had a program they were testing out, mostly for pregnant girls and such, where you get your assignments for the whole semester and then study on your own and report your minimum progress at a weekly meeting. It was perfect. So I stayed through graduation. I had no intention of ever going to college though. At the time I thought of the education system: High School--College--Career, as some sort of soul sucking cattle call. In retrospect, and after six or seven years of dropping in and out of various universities , I think my rightous anger at the system was a partly prop I used to hide what I can now call my executive dysfunction.

I actually don't think "executive dysfunction" is the best term for it. I like "specific motivation" instead. I find that I can only really motivate myself to do things if they interest me and only so long as they do. This is in direct opposition to what is required to generally start and finish college: a whole lot of work on things of no value that are uninteresting for the sake of realizing a distant and hard to concieve of goal. Most people would call this hard work and dedication, and they would be right. Unfortunately I don't have that. For better or (often) worse, I am a rocket that goes off when I happen to come across mental fuel, I've never been much of a tank that can just soldier on regardless of my mental environment. I suspect it is the same for others.

I dropped out of my first career choice due to executive dysfunctioning, loneliness and harassment. (I don't understand why people don't just feel sorry for me instead of attacking.). I almost dropped out of my second career choice and had to re-take subjects for the same reasons. During middle and high school I was absent/late as much as I could and kept getting in trouble with my parents who had always forced me to attend to a lot of things (tennis, English, golf, whatever they thought was trendy - if the teacher was abusive they'd team up with him).

I think I should have dropped out and dedicated myself to a special interest - I have a distant relative who did very well (better than his graduated brothers) by just setting up his own business.
Now I break down each 3 days and feel like quitting everything - I find out I can't quit nor kill myself so I drag myself to work (drudgery + being scoffed at) the next day with two hours sleep. I try to talk but everything is stuttered out in a jumbled way. Being a random employee at an office means I can't make a difference - no one can - as things are systematically screwed because the boss is an idiot causing drudgery to pile up, suffocating us, making us nothing. . .
Four years of university for this. . . and let's not forget graduate school. . .

I dropped out because:
-I had (have) Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which meant I was often too exhausted to even get out of bed. That and I got sick a lot.
-Severe anxiety, when I was actually at school. The atmosphere of it, the bright lights and being surrounded with people constantly, the noise etc. was too much for me. I wasn't teased, I had a few friends and plenty of nice acquaintances but still it was just overload. So it got to the point where I would skip classes a lot, hiding out in a stall in the restroom with my hands over my ears rocking back and forth.
-Switching to a new school, which threw things off for me, still either sick or skipping or whatever, or just doing badly because at the time I was on medication that didn't agree with me which messed things up.
-Nervous breakdown (not school related) which wiped me out for a few weeks.
-Then, (almost forgot) I tried going to a nearby "Alternative" school which was basically just smaller, with shorter days but more focused work (little to no interaction). That did not work either, since my brain was still going haywire I guess. And again, the stupid wellbutrin making me hallucinate was very distracting. and I just never went back to school after that summer.

So, because of absences etc I didn't have nearly enough credits to graduate anyway - I would have to go two more years.
Now I'm in community college, and though it's much more tolerable I still don't like it and still hide out in the restrooms in between classes when I can. I'm only going since I have to for health insurance.

I dropped out of elementary school [a lot different from highschool] in grade 5, and didn't go back until grade 8, when I tried going to one highschool, then dropped out again because I hated it so much. I did well in all of my courses, but I hate having to sit still all day, and the curriculum was pretty bad. I moved, and went to a different school for grade 9, and am still going there [presently in grade 10], but hate it nonetheless. I've promised myself that I won't drop out because I learn math best if I take it as a class, and the school has the most incredible drama teacher. I might start taking some correspondance courses in grade 11 and 12 so that I don't have to be at school all the time. It's not just the style of learning that I hate, but the people too; I've been harassed several times and I don't feel safe, so I don't think this is really good for my mental health at all. I'd love to leave, but I'm supposed to be a success for other private reasons, so I can't really quit now

I didn't drop out, I was told not to go back.

Hey IdahoRose... I am like you sort of... I am still going to complete high school (hopefully.. maybe not...) and then just take a certification test and boom thats when i become a certified rehab technology specialist (powerchair dealer / strap dealer)

I didnt drop out...... I was kicked out of my first high school for not been normal

And the 2nd place I went to was a....................Residential school for boys with special needs or behavioural problems..... that place was just evil......

It was like I had went back in time to the 1950s

All boys

Bad food that made me sick a few times

PE 3 times aday everyday (it was to keep us tired)

A group shower for PE (I always waited until ppl had finished before I uesd it)

1 shower for a hall with about 12 ppl living in it (we all had to be down at the dinner hall by 7:30am so their was a rush for the shower)

Bed time at 9pm..... lights out at 9:30pm..... and the doors locked

When the school day finished at 6pm all we had to do................... was to sit down and not say anything till dinner at 7pm then sit down and watch the TV till bed time

All boys......

Sharing a room with a nut job...... a real phsyco

School 7 days a week

I could go on but i feel this list has got abit to long...........

So anyways I droped out after awhile

yea....

A lot of famous people left secondary school early!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

well done for them

seeing what they want and taking it....

You need ADD ADHD for it to work.. or energy to get up and go work for yourself... have goals etc....
One of my classmates clearly had adhd he dropped out at age 16 and heres a millionare now at age my age 20...
Property real estate was his choice...

So yea If you have energy goals and plans do it.. aspies tend to get better marks on their passions eh

Im at university now eh... I cant wait to get that bit of paper.... and do my own school
LOL good movie "accepted"
alrite

and another famous new zealander set up website www.trademe.co.nz ebay equilvalent... and he was a university/college drop out! he made millions millions selling it

yea so.. If you know what ya wanna do have support goals etc do it eh

I went to 3 different schools in 06-07. The decision leaving my regional school will probably be the biggest mistake i made in life. i returned to my old school that i went to from 03-05. I was there for say 2-3 months. I refused to go there and i told them that i would get kicked out of class all the time on purpose. After 2 months there the principle got tired of me and asked me to leave and i did. I went to my last school and was there for 2 weeks and i decided to drop out.

If I knew any better when I was 14 I would of dropped out of high school asap and went straight to community college.
I consider high school to be the biggest waste of 4 years all payed by tax payers

High school in the US now is like watching a dog vomit,and paying taxes when you have no money and painting a white wall white. Sicking,impossible,makes you anxious,stressed and a waste of time. I plan drop my junior year because I turn 16 this july and thats when you can in rhode Island. My reasons are listed below
1.Sleep issues because of RLS and sleep apena
2.Bullying
3.Weight issue
4.No chance of graduation
5.hatred for school
6.bad attendence
Here is an explanation of number 4 I am supposed to graduate in 2010 but right time for my graduting class because of the inhumane No child left behind Rhode adopted the applied learning graduation in which entail the following
-Aquiring a certain amount of something called carnige units
-Putting a certain amount of work for math,science,history,english and electives into a portfolio and present it all to a concil that evalutates it and determines depending on the other factors if you recive a diploma or not the amount never changes its high and the portfolio assignments a really hard.
-Pass the necap test which is hard
-Do the hard rhode island standardized tests
I am not doing the portfolio so good cause I have nothing in their for freshman year and i am now a sophmore But i do having reasons freshman year I had to have Chiari decompression surgery and when I went back to school I was really behind then my heavy backpack caused a pocket in then back of my head to fill with cerebral spinal fluid which cause painful headaches and bad nausea which lead to me getting temporary home tutoring from the school district but i never recieved any portfolio assignments that year that and low attendance this year because of high fatigue which made school which was horriable already completely unbearble with get really stressed,anxious and depressed. The fatigue is due to lack of sleep cause by a combanation of moderate Restless leg syndrome and moderate closed to severe sleep apnea. But I do plan on going for my GED and Then college to become a historian,anthropologist,nutrional anthropologists,archeologist,or a professor of history.

I dropped out of high school because:

- I hated it. Special Education after elementary school was synonymous with criminal kids back then here in Holland.
- Frequent fights, bullying, low self-esteem, anxiety, persecution.
- When the teacher tried to explain in 2nd year how you should manage your welfare check, i knew life sucked when it boiled down to the educational system for someone like me.
- The school did have the courtesy to arrange materials that were more on par with my level, but due to the sensory overload (class fights and bullying, yelling primates), i couldn't really finish it.
- Lack of a diploma, a certificate was all that could be obtained.
- Lack of serious subjects (history, maths, languages, etc.).

I did it for 3 and a half year. Those years in puberty were the most hellish i had known, but they had made me stronger. Even though I've been unemployed for quite some years, and my current job certainly ain't heaven, I only need to think of where those primates who populated that school are now. More then 75% of them are in prison no doubt.

I dropped out of high school twice in the first year and never went back.
It was really unexpected by my family as I had always excelled in school when I was younger.

High schoool was way too much for me to take - fluorescent lights, hailstorms of mindless chit chat, nowhere to escape. The cliques were WAY too much for me. I never really wanted to be around the people I knew and so I hung out by myself during breaks.

I also had a really hard time taking notes during verbal lectures. I couldn't really understand what my teachers were saying.

I did make it out of High School with 5 credits though - English 13 - It was a class filled with misfits. I felt really comfortable with most of the students in that class because they were about as interested in all the social confusion as I was. We also had a really excellent teacher that used many different methods of teaching to reach us all.

I don't have any desire to go back, although sometimes I humor my loved ones and try and show a little interest in taking some classes.
I have a good job with great benefits, and so far my "lack" of education hasn't really affected my life at all.
I love researching things on my own and I tend to learn more that way - reading books from the library, scouring the internet and so on.

If I hadn't dropped out, when Columbine happened, people would have been saying, "Hey, that was almost as bad as what happened in Orting back around 1980!"

Fortunately, I backdoored my way into community college a year or so later (it still amuses me that I had to skip a precalculus class to go to my GED appointment). It might have helped even more if I'd learned the great lesson of my life - that there are no shortcuts in life. Then I might have continued my education after enlisting, and come out of the Air Force with a BS in Comp Sci, instead of thinking the experience I picked up would suffice... <insert wry grin here>