High School Dropouts

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Are you a high school dropout?

I voted yes. While our school system is totally different to the american, i went to a pretty good school at first. Then i got expelled, came to a "special needs school" wich in reality just was a place to dump the misfits and from there i dropped out some years later because it was pointless to me and not worth taking the pain anymore...

After this years summer vacation i am going back to school tho. I didnt gave up the idea of actually doing something with my life yet. Still dont know how i will cope with it again, but at least this time the graduation i am going for will be worth something...

Peace
TK

*raises hand*

I dropped out partly because I was forced to transfer to a different high school than the one I had attended for most of my "career" due to a move, partly because I had difficulties with some material past a Grade 10/11 level, and partly because I was going through some severe mental health issues (mainly OCD and anxiety, as well as tensions between myself and my family) that kept me from attending on a regular basis. My sleep schedule also played a big role in my sporadic attendence.

I've had some limited success with academic upgrading in a community college environment, as well through correspondence courses, but I simply lack the gumption to attend class on a regular basis or complete modules in a timely manner.

I feel like if I had the chance to stay in my home town for one more year and keep attending the same school, I may have gotten my diploma. But here I am, 22 years old, living a boring, depressing life on disability, and I'm still several credits away from a high school diploma. My mental health state is pretty rough, in some ways almost as bad as it was during my last year of high school when I was still living with my dad, but on the bright side I actually have a reasonable amount of control in my life now.

I voted 'No' - I wanted to drop out because of the bullying and the stupid teachers, and my dad wanted to pull me out and send me to a "youth academy", but mom literally stood in his way and wouldn't let him, so I stuck it out and left home a week after graduation. It was rough, but worth it.

Would you believe, back then, I'd never even heard of dropping out? It never occurred to me despite the misery and torture I had at my HS. Anyway, given my propensity to see anything I've started all the way through to its conclusion, I would've stayed in school anyway.

I despised nursing school, hated it with a passion. But finished it and became a nurse anyway. Then, 30 years of interminable medical hell.

Nope because I never even knew it was at option at the time.

No, I limped through. was so drained after I wanted NOTHING to do with further schooling, and never have tried since save of a half semester of classes I barely attended in a community college.

I would of dropped out if my parents would of let me because I hated school & struggled with lots of classes due to dyslexia & other disabilities. The only reason I passed is because I had resource accommodations cuz of my dyslexia & my teachers curved my grade in a few subjects like Biology, Civics, & Algebra 1. The only plan I had when i graduated was not to go to college & I never 1ce regretted that decision. I worked some sense then & am on Social Security Disability now.

Almost dropped out.

Like the previous poster.

For me, it was not so much academic concerns as social concerns. I think my parents would have been really mad if I did as they both value education highly. I value it to, but not as much as they do.

Yes I did I had a child on the way at 16. I got my ged in a week and went to work. As an adult when things were slow
I went back and got a associates degree.

Had I not taken the trade I was taken I probably would have dropped out during seniro year so my answer is no. I felt like after I got to my last year of high school that everything was a waste and I didn't really care much anymore. The only thing I cared about was going to the computer graphics class which you couldn't miss more then 5 days in the semester or else you'd fail. So that pretty well kept me in school till graduation even though I didn't want to attend my high school graduation.