If you're a high school dropout...?
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Mine is kind of a "different" sort of case.\n\nI have a G.E.D. because of this, rather than a standard high school diploma. \n\nI started university coursework at the age of 14, in language arts, history, music, and eventually sciences. The high school transferred credits onto my transcript there, too. I continued with math and some electives at the high school, for another 2 years, but then went to full-time college attendance. At that point, 21 high school credits were needed for a diploma, and I had 25. However, somehow they found me short 1/2 credit, in world literature/12th grade grammar. They also refused to accept ANY of the university's freshman or sophomore world lit classes as concurrent credit, because "none of them matched the high school 12th grade curriculum requirements." They wanted me to RETURN to the high school and sit through a semester of 12th grade language arts, when I was earning A's in English at the college level. I told them where they could stick their diploma.\n\nI took a year off of my studies when I was 17 years old (in 1986), to work at a bank. For the bank's paperwork, they needed me to have something like a high school diploma from me, so they had me take the G.E.D., paying the testing fees, etc. \n\nBecause of several other components to my experience (which I didn't go into here because the whole soap opera would take a book...) I am a strong advocate for the "standard" gifted education policy being enrichment and curriculum acceleration/compression within the chronological grade level, rather than acceleration of the student to sit with older students (which should only happen, if absolutely needed, after careful consideration of the student's emotional and social development).
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You're experience typical college burn out blues.\n\nMy advice: bite the bullet and get it over with, so you can get on with your life.\n\nIf you drop out now, I predict other distractions will grab your attention, and you'll end up postponing even further what remains of your degree completion.
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Community colleges will take anyone, try them out. Hell thay don't care if you even graduate highschool.
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I loved going to college.  It was truly the best time of my life and would love to do it again one day to get another degree.  School can be a lot of fun if you make it that way.  In high school, I really wish I would have applied myself more.  Yeah, school is hard but it is worth it when you get older.  If there was a way that adults could take high school over again, I would sign up in a minute.  I would take all the classes that would better prepare me for things and apply myself more.
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I'm not a teacher, but I think I can answer this in part.\nThose who do NOT graduate from High School tend to earn much less money over the course of their lives.  There are rare exceptions to this. While earning money isn't the only important thing in life, it can help you do those things that you want to do.\nFurthermore, as a drop out, you may not realize your full potential for your life, since so many employers or associations will not give you a chance without that diploma.\nFinally, the teachers spend a lot of time, mental sweat and emotion on their students.  They know the things I mentioned above, and they've also see other people with potential throw it away by not finishing school.  It's a personal loss for them.\nHigh school may seem difficult and/or time consuming now, but it will seem like a missed chance when you look back on it in a few years.
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If you want to graduate high school, you must persevere.
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just try your best and study hard....what do you do now?
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uuhhh before you bring some poor kid into the world and inflict yourself as its parent, maybe you should finish high school first.
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right out of high school
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Maybe you can sneak in if someone drops out? Lots of people drop out for various reasons but you should contact the uni and find out some more information ;-)
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I'm a droppout myself and I don't reccommend it but you just go to the guidance dept and tell them you won't be coming back\nThat's that...but if I was you I would check out some "alternative" learning choices....I just wanted to add that just b/c you're a dropout doesn't mean you're a failure...there are some people that will tell you that you are..but as long as you get your diploma or GED eventually then you'll be fine...also I dropped out when I was 16 and have been working full time eversince that day...it's not a fun life...especially when you have to work and all your friends have a PD day at school and are going shopping or something...but for alot of people the traditional school system isn't the way to go..there are many different "alternative" schools...homeschooling and online courses..the world is your oyster
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Well, to be completely honest, that school is pretty much for people who didn't fit in at all in high school, and it shows.  A freind of mine with similar problems went, and she said it was like being around a whole group of people with no real social skills and she ended up leaving after a year.
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I have an 18 year old step son who just dropped out of school at the beginning of his final semester of his senior year.  Dumb, dumb, dumb...  He is living with friends - has been through 3 jobs in 6 weeks - and has no vehicle any more because he couldn't pay the repair bills.  You can ALWAYS go back to college, but you can NEVER resume your high school career.
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My senior English Teach AND the career councilor both told me it would be best for me to drop out and get my G.E.D. Granted I was far behind, but that is never advice you give to a high school student. Even though I did follow their advice...
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Just your high school grades.\n\nCoach
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I have a GED, I did not complete high school for reasons that are not important.  My GED has allowed me to attain employment as well as a person wh graduated high school......my life would be much worse without it.
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There were many reasons i dropped out of school...i was way to much of a partyer, didn't like to wake up early.. my dad died when i was 16, never felt like going to school, just sat in my room and cried.. there was nothing the school did to make me drop out, i dont ever think its the schools fault, there is nothing they could do diffrent, its all on us