No, because I'm not retarded.

Yes, because High School is for submissive faggot fucks who have no problem laying down and taking a deep thick cock in their ass for the rest of their lives while desperately trying to justify their boring life to themselves.


Live for yourself, not for your manager.

>>7519514
...what? Your comment had nothing to do with attending and/or dropping out of high school. Maybe you should go back.

Got shit on a daily basis, had few friends, was developing social anxieties and had to take a 90 minute commute for the privilege. Eventually just stopped getting out of bed in the morning.
I don't recommend it, it started me on a 6 year period of depression, loneliness and a stupid bout of self-harming. Then I read the NHK manga, and it freaked me out enough to get a job and enroll in FE college (I think it's the Brit version of CC). Got some friends now, might be going to uni later in the year.

Skipped a fuckton of school, hated it. see: social anxeity. Didn't want to put in the effort of going in an extra year or two. Also moved around a lot.

Anyways im in college now

sure is G.E.D. in here

>>7519514
>implying failure is living for yourself
>implying submission isn't completely necessary and justifiable at early phases of life
>implying you're not a faggot

>>7519476
I did. Homeschooled. Got into uni.

after I got into university I stopped going to high school. I failed senior year because I was never there. I still got into uni lolol

Yeah. Then I went on to university, dropping out of it for the same reasons.

High school senior here. I've been sick as fuck these past few weeks, missed a lot of school, and now I'm so far behind that I don't know if I can catch up. The stress is making me want to drop out, even though I know it'd completely screw me over.

>>7519605
I did that my sophomore year. Got reaaaally sick and missed so much school my guidance counsel told me I'd never make it up. Dropped out, made up the credits online until I was well, came back for the start of Junior year. So far so good.

>>7519605
Hurp Hurp Drop out of high school Durp Hurp....

Shut the fuck up. High school is a joke. You don't even have to make up more than half of the "work". Hell, if you were going to college, you would have already been accepted by now and wouldn't give a fuck at all about high school now.

>>7519605

In the grand scheme of things, it matters less than you think it will. Honestly though it's probably easier to just catch up.

>>7519654
It really doesn't. Seeing as you live in America, you can literally weasel your way through a new education. Wanna drop out? Fine, but be prepared to have to go to a community college to complete your high school diploma. On top of that, prepare to have to go to a school in your own state, they dont transfer. Still don't like that option, go to a trade school. They are not actually as "Inferior" as you think they are.

In reality, High School is pretty fucking easy. It boggles me that people would fail it out of sheer laziness.

>>7519639
>implying that i haven't already been accepted to college

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It's not so much a matter of "making up the work" as in half-assed worksheets, but more that I don't understand half of what's going on in my more difficult classes. I don't doubt that I'll be able to catch up eventually, but at the moment, it's just been difficult to get back into the swing of things.

high school?

that's the one where you show up and get at least a B right?

or an A if you're handsome/cute?

Somewhat. I hated my peers and teachers, and felt I wasn't learning anything I wanted to learn. My grades were pretty mediocre, too.

At the end of Freshman year I withdrew, enrolled in a shitty inner-city online school and graduated as valedictorian at the end of what would have been Sophomore year back at my old school.

The classes there were shit, but they gave me links to plenty of supplemental material and I consequently learned more that year than I had my entire life in the traditional educational system.

Now I'm in a respectable state college with two years of credits ahead of others my age and a 4.33 GPA. Feels good, man.

If any underagedb& are reading this, drop what you're doing and withdraw from High School and enroll in an online program where you can work at your own pace. You won't regret it. Proms and pep rallies are nothing compared to taking charge of your own education and beating the system.

>>7519754

Ignore that superfluous "and" in the last paragraph.

>>7519754
Didn't it get lonely at all? I mean, do you have long term social defects now that you're in college?

>>7519754
Ehh, not everybody leanrs best online. OPthers just need a different form like a practical sills school, or one that refines an interest they have

However, i will admit that thew school system in America is terrible. The teachers are shit, and all of them are backed by unions. Once i read a document on the internet detailing the steps necessary to fire a teacher. Unless he murders or raps a student, the fuck still has a job, no matter how poorly his students perform. Its this very reason that kids are dropping out. The teachers aren't motivated, so it bounces on the student.

To make things worse, schools are just focusing on getting that sexy awesome test score, instead of teaching students interesting material. They have whole barrages of social studies and math teachers, but wheres the metal shop, and the auto shop classes high schools used to have? Where did the arts programs go?

>>7519860
FUCK ART, ART TEACHERS DON'T DESERVE TO LIVE

>>7519871
Why? Most of the art teachers ive had are pretty chill.

>>7519856

Fuck no, I'm so introverted I border on schizoid and 4chan filled whatever social void did emerge.

By most standards I do have mild "social defects", but I don't really mind. I don't go to parties or talk to friends outside class, but I'm perfectly capable of maintaining a conversation with someone without looking autistic.

>>7519901

>pretty chill

>>7519909
>don't go to parties or talk to friends outside class

Fuck that, I'm staying in school. Thanks for persuading me.

>>7519856

Other anon than the one you're replying to (I'm the homeschool-uni one) but for me, highschool was such a living hell that it was refreshing to be alone - any friends I had were outside of school all along. At university I dropped right into butter basically, I was with people I liked, who liked me back.

>>7519860

I think--among all the innovative private schools out there--anyone can get an education that suits them. You just need to take the initiative and look. But the current public school system is right for *no one*. It's based on an outdated model.

>>7519945

lol, nothing's stopping you from hanging out with your friends outside school, dude. But I doubt you're getting anything from the public school system, unless you really enjoy those faggy-ass pep rallies and football games.

In my case, profound introversion was the reason behind my withdrawal from school, not the result of it.

>>7519476
Yes, I got kicked out on 3 separate occasions for missing 15 consecutive days of class. Now I'm 20 and joining the army soon. Stereotype ho!

School didn't really suit me. No one actively disliked me but I didn't have any proper friends. Classes moved way too slowly and teachers just taught "exam technique" and material geared towards the exams. It was boring as fuck and I viewed going to school as a huge timesink. I dropped out but continue to teach myself and hope to sit my exams and do well enough to go to university this year. If anything it has benefited my social life as my friends were always outside school and now I have a lot more free time to spend with them and am able to go out on weeknights, which is when the majority of university students go out here, rather than the weekend.

well...
i got kicked out of high school my senior year for holding up my calculus class with a stapler on pcp.


but i did graduate all the same. :D

I got expelled from high school because I forgot a knife was in the pocket of my bag and some dumb bitch saw it and reported me. Got arrested and expelled and never went back to high school.

Now I live in Europe and work as a Network Analyst. My life isn't perfect but it's not bad for someone with no qualifications whatsoever.

>>7520073

Good luck, brosef. University is just so much better than High School. Your peers act like adults, your professors actually KNOW WHAT THEY'RE FUCKING TALKING ABOUT, you don't have to do mindless busywork every fucking night...

The funny I've observed thing is that a lot of the people who do well in High School get mediocre grades in college, whereas the High-School slackers do exceptionally well in college.

>>7520168

Make that "funny thing I've observed". Don't know how that grammatical abomination came out.

>>7520114

lol badass

>>7520168
Sad truth, most high schools get lower or average grades because the course work in colleges are different than in high school.

High school is the easiest fucking thing to complete. I know this because retards pass it every year-- both literal retards, and people who aren't legally retarded but still really fucking stupid. The only people who fail to complete high school are lazy fucks.

Yes, I got my GED, I scored high, but that doesn't really matter, everyone assumes you're retarded if you have your GED.

I passed tests all through high school, I just never did homework/busy work.
I figured " I don't need to color a map of the middle east to help me remember where Israel is."
So I never did it. I figured taking a test proving that I learned what they were trying to teach me should have been enough.
I dropped out in my Senior year just to be an asshole.

Becoming a gunsmith doesn't require a high school diploma. I'm content with the path I've chosen, I get to live my dream so fuck all yall bishes.

i left high school when i was 14 because the school were going to fine my mom 2k because of my poor attendance. my poor attendance was actually caused by my extreme back pain I had ever since I fell on my back onto a piece of flat scrap metal i cut my back open and almost broke 3 of my ribs and damaged a middle vertebrate. I went to the doctor sometime after and he refused to write a doctornote so i could be excused from school for a proper reason. so yeh i ended up getting homeschool by my mom which eventually turned into me just getting really baked and playing games and making computer music. funnerly enough i kept in good contact with a few of my closest friends from school and my social skills didn't really detiorate that much so i can still hold a good convasation with a stranger if i wanted too (not like i would want to talk to anyone with all the niggers and crack heads around here). I also now am on a few indie labels because of my music and also am a co-owner and webmaster for another indie label whos owned by a local promoter i used to play gigs for so i guess it turned out not so bad.

In high school I was always straight A's, always on the honor roll, well liked by my teachers, etc. Pretty average smart kid. But thanks to my older sister being that schools typical popular, well connected, hot blonde party girl, I ended up becoming very well known myself as her cool little brother. I could walk into the cafeteria and sit at any table I liked and join the conversation - ballers, stoners, skaters, goths, preps, nerds, whatever, it didn't matter. I had no enemies, and everyone knew my name. I also had that whole "cute bad boy with a skateboard and long hair" look going for me, so there was always at least a few girls interested in me. High school was fucking awesome. Good grades, good social status, lots of friends, and underage pussy everywhere.

But my inner nerd wouldn't quiet down. The classes were too easy. I would finish a weeks work in a day, and be bored for the remaining 3 or 4 classes that week. There wasn't any point in going to a class where I had nothing to do, so I started skipping. Sleeping in, staying home to play video games, leaving at lunch to go skateboard with my stoner friends. I did this all through ninth and tenth grade. I was going to school the equivalent of maybe two or three days a week. I even maintained my honor roll status doing this for 4 entire semesters. However, in eleventh grade, I pushed my luck too far and started falling behind, eventually failing classes. I was then expelled from the school for lack of attendance.

Today I'm 19, unemployed, living at home, with only a couple friends (who I very rarely see). My girlfriend is ugly as fuck, way, way, WAY below my previous high school standards, and I never get out of the house unless it's to see her every other weekend. I go to a shitty community college 2 days a week, working towards finishing high school in a class full of teen pregnancies, recovering drug addicts, and middle aged failures trying to get their life back on track.

What the fuck happened?

yes. because i had will.

yes
mental problems

Dropped out early junior year, reason being piss poor attendance. I just flat out refused to go to school due to it being a halfway house (more or less). I knew that another 2 years there would be wasted, so I got my GED, enrolled in community college, and am set to transfer to a university next spring.

tl;dr high school is nigh useless.

>>7521983
You're not as smart as you would like to believe.

>>7522103
yeah seriously, if you were smart you would've taken all of the AP courses the school offered and been challenged

>>7522103
I don't think I'm all that smart, I was just good at math and remembering things in high school. That's all it took to get good grades.

If I was smarter I wouldn't be where I am right now, eh?

Yes, my mom died during junior year.
I decided I'd rather wallow around in self pity for a couple years and toy with the idea of suicide than keep going to school.

Turned out to be a really stupid decision. Now I'm working at a movie theater trying to get enough money to attend CC.

>>7522152
I was taking AP courses. In eighth grade half my courses were ninth and tenth grade levels. By the second semester ninth grade I was completing CADD12. This contributed to my whole "too good for school" mentality that ultimately fucked me over when things actually did start getting difficult.

Got kicked out because I ran a proxy on my server. The proxy helped students evade the school censor.

Fucking American fascism.

Dropping out to become like this kid:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/12/barefoot.teen.plane.thief/index.html

University dropout here. [spoiler]Because of money problems

No, I waited until I was a few years into uni and had acquired 20K of debt.

Did not feel the need to finish. I had no motivation, no friends, and no care in the world. I'm now a bum living off the scraps of all the successful high school graduates, going through their garbage and begging for spare change so I can afford something on the McDonald dollar menu. Go to school, kids.

Yet you have a computer and internet access.

>>7523526

Public library maybe?

I dropped out of high school. Finished 10th grade and split. I got into Simon's Rock (college for high school-aged folks) so right now I'm finishing my last year of college in another school I transferred to and everything's fine.

I just really really really hated high school.

Did not drop out of highschool because I want to go to college.
The only reason I want to go to college is so I have an excuse to go to NYC or LA to pursue screenwriting, acting and stand up comedy.

Maybe I should consider. I just kind of shocked myself.

>>7519514

your a waiter now right?

>>7523692

>simons rock college

wtf bullshit excuse of a university is this

Yes, because I didn't like it. I work at grocery store now, lol. It's kinda boring but it's easy as fuck and I regret nothing.

>>7523692
Holy shit relevancy!

I was planning on going there- how is it?

what the hell kind job could you get without a highschool diploma?

its hard enough trying to get a decent one without having gone to college

>>7523995
it's part of Bard College, so it's really expensive liberal arts for a younger set

>>7524024
what do you want to know? i stayed in the history/social science parts (ie i don't know about the math/aspie departments). the social scene...lol. lol.

mootblox

Dropped out of high school two months before graduation due to illnesses.

Got into princeton with a GED.

3.55 GPA, what now highschoolfags

>>7524101
How are the people/professors?
Are the dorms sufficient?
Even if you have the proper clothing is it still incredibly cold?
Does it get boring considering you're in the Berkshires?

Thanks brah

Sitting next to my mother she dropped out.
She got her GED and now and she works full time and isn't doing to bad.
I mean I'm going to graduate, but at the same time its not the end of the world if you don't. Plenty of people graduate and don't do anything with their lives.

itt; the fault lies not with the stars, but within ourselves

I dropped out when i was 16 because of anxiety and roneryness. I don't regret it, I prefer to self educate for the sake of knowledge and have no desire to get a job.

I didn't drop out, I just stopped trying and failed out.

Of course, I did get my diploma eventually...when I was fucking 20, via correspondence school. Now I'm a community college fag at 24. Feels bad, man. However, now that I know what it feels like to fuck up and have no education, I value it all the more and I'm doing well. I'm currently an engineering major.

>>7524190
I'm more of a brosephine, but shhh
>How are the people/professors?
The people...eh. Think of all the smart kids from high school (both the over-achieving and slacker) put together. They're like that. Some of them are insufferable little shits, but that's just the way of the world. I get the feeling there's a disproportionate number of people that go there with mental illness but that just might be confirmation bias. The people I made friends with though are my BROS FOR LIFE so that was wonderful.

The professors that I had were great. They're tough and expect a lot from you, but not impossibly so (they're generally very clear about what they want, so you're not like "wtf am i supposed to do now"). The Freshman Seminar is a great experience (even if it doesn't transfer to other colleges) and if he's still around, I recommend taking it with Mark Vecchio (he's great).

--I got "field to long", sorry

>>7524366
>Are the dorms sufficient?
The dorms...hmm. Freshmen have to stay in the tri-dorms. I'm assuming you're a guy, so you'd get either the all-male dorm (I forget its name) or Kendrick (the co-ed dorm). The all-guy dorm smells like socks and sweat, sry2say, but other than that it was no better or worse than Crosby (the all-girls dorm I was in). Kendrick had a reputation for a certain type of student when I was there (ie potheads) but idk if that stereotype still holds. Second year you could apply to live in Hill House, which I liked a lot more, but the rooms were farther away from class-- not tremendously so at all, but every bit counts in the middle of winter. You could also apply to live in the Mods, and those were great to visit friends in.
>Even if you have the proper clothing is it still incredibly cold?
I'm from Florida, so it was almost always cold to me. The people from the northeast looked at me like I was a total idiot though. I got this fly ass jacket that kept me really warm, though, so it is possible to stay toasty, you just need to shop around.
>Does it get boring considering you're in the Berkshires?
It does, which gets resolved by making your own fun (drinking, even though it's a dry campus with underaged students) or making friends with upperclassmen who have cars and trying to take the train to NYC (which plenty of people did).

Or spending all night on 4chan (which I was totally guilty of doing, but I certainly was not the only one).

>>7524366
>>7524375

Great answers, thanks :)

I'm from Florida as well, so that was relevant as hell.

>>7521983
>and this is why you don't drop out of high school kids
>signed
>the federal board of education

yes

I went to highschool in a part of town that was sandwiched between a housing project and a semi-affluent neighborhood, so you basically had rich kids acting like ghetto thug kids and thug kids acting like ghetto thug kids. It was a recipe for disaster for someone like me, a nerdy kid who liked computers and played the violin, and needless to say, I had to fight a lot with people. I finally got sick and tired of it and dropped out in the 11th grade. I got my GED about a year later and graduated from college about a year and a half ago. I've been working as a software developer since then.

>>7519639

>went to some nigger school in the ghetto

What do all of you dropouts do? I do manual labor in a factory for about $22 per hour.

>>7524407
Cool, I ended up transferring to New College of Florida, which is really similar and a lot cheaper since I'm a resident, so keep that in mind if you end up going and want to transfer out.

High school for me was easy as fuck.
Just my luck though, I was in the "Gifted Education" program (IQ above 140 or some bullshit) and basically all the program does is makes it easier for smart kids to get whatever the fuck they want. The school funds it because they know we boost(ed) their test scores and most of the smart kids will drop out if not given other shit to do.

Anyway I took full advantage of the program to start taking classes at the local University where my dad taught. I started my first college class in freshman year, took another in sophmore year, took 2 the summer between sophmore and junior year, and took another during junior year. Between those, about 4 or 5 AP classes, and some clever scheduling, I graduated at the end of my junior year, age 16.

I was in a band though, and even though all my school friends were still in for another year, I went and moved out to California with my band for a year, and basically tripped on acid and got stoned and surfed for a year. What a waste, but damn was it fun. Then I moved to Seattle over the summer with some friends, and then they went to college in Philly so I moved to Philly, got a job delivering pizzas and sold weed.

Now I moved into a dorm and I'm going to UArts in Philadelphia to get some sort of bullshit degree.


tl;dr graduated high school in 3 years, wish I would have gone to college right after

>>7524582
that's not bad money, at least it's over the minimum wage

>>7524849

Norway ftw!