Did anyone else "drop out of school mentally" in f

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Until 1990, kids in Norway started 1st grade at age 7 (it's now 6 even though the "new 1st grade is more like Kindergarten in the U.S.)
Until my first day in school I loved math. Then I started school, couldn't concentrate in a class full of 30 assh... and dropped "mentally" out of school. I'm now 33 and I only need my science and math exams to get my high school diploma but I don't have any intention of getting it, because I can't concentrate on reading and my short-time memory is so bad that I used 4 years to learn my own cell phone number. And of cause, I only used to go to College so that I could show my dentist father and scientist sister that I'm not a complete ret*d...

I know how you feel man. I'm learning nine chapters worth of Algebra which I'm not even gonna need, let alone remember.

I dropped mentally out of school in the last five school years and maybe even before.School is really boring.

I was expelled from school several times because of my behavioral problems. I left school in grade eight and never completed a grade of high school. I tried returning after a few years, at one point I just enrolled myself in grade eleven at a new school in another city. No one ever told me I couldn't do that, even though I had not finished grade eight. I don't think they investigated student records that indepth. Anyway, I took all the grade eleven classes for a few months, except for math. I would attend each day except for the math class. Eventually the principal of that particular school called me into his office and advised me to quit if I wasn't going to attend properly. So I quit again, and do not have a high school diploma. What I did not know at the time was that I was learning disabled.

In my early twenties I went back to college and completed a B.A.

I dropped out of high school (completely, not just mentally). So I have no high school diploma and no university qualifications.

Nevertheless, I still managed to be employed. No, NOT at McDonalds, I actually got myself a job that normally only university graduates would be able to get. How? I just simply demonstrated to my employer that I was not only capable of doing the job, but also capable of doing it well, and thus formal qualifications became irrelevant. So I got a university-graduate-level job without actually doing or paying for university -- sweet!! The demonstration of my skills was crucial, I would not have gotten the job without the proof/demonstration of my ability to do the job.

But I am not criticizing university. Uni is a very good thing for most people. It just was not for me. And I am certainly NOT recommending or suggesting that anyone drop out of school or uni.

The fact is that no one has to suffer through regular high school anymore because there are alternatives. There are many alternatives to high school now, both online and in real life. As well, the whole range of educational possibilities has expanded. It is possible to do self individualized designed programs in B.A degrees as well as at the graduate student level. Many universities have these types of programs. So not having a high school diploma is not the barrier that it once was considered to be. I always feel that people who consider the high school diploma the single most important step to education to be a little misguided.

I pretty much dropped out mentally starting in the 8th grade and through HS. In fact, I still wonder to this day how my HS teachers got me through at all without me officially dropping out.

Elanivalae: Target small businesses. See, a big company will have a HR department that does all the hiring, and the HR department is stocked full of drones who only care about protecting their own backsides, and thus these HR drones will only hire people who LOOK good on paper, because then there is paper evidence to defend their hiring decision. And if the person they hired turns out to be a dolt, then they can blame the university.

Whereas a small business cannot afford such inefficiency, and the owners will make a greater effort to ensure that they get someone who can really do the job, thus they will tend to look at the resume but also *beyond* it. A small business owner will also be more likely to accept or trial unusual situations or offers, whereas a HR drone will immediately reject anything unusual because again they are only interested in protecting their own backsides and anything out-of-the-ordinary is more difficult for a drone to defend.

For example, with a small business owner, you can do unusual stuff such as saying: "My resume does not look great, but my skills are good, and to prove this I am willing to work for you for 1 month / 2 weeks on a very low wage / for free as a trial/demonstration of my skills, and after that time, you can decide whether you want to hire me properly or let me go."

Whereas if you said that to a fearful HR drone, you would be trundled out of the office immediately, and the drone would try his/her hardest to forget ever having heard of you, fearful of a manager discovering that the drone even heard such a non-standard proposal.