To the High School and College Drop Outs Here....

[no oneder]

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You left school?!?! I can't believe that!!

Well, I definitely thought about it several times, but I chose no all of those times.
Also:

I am not a drop-out but I find bullying to be higly disgusting.
The school authority figures allowing scum to make others miserable is enraging!

Did you go to a teacher about the bullying?

That disgusts me too, and I'm highly enraged.

So, you wanna look for this kids? Me and my brother can help you beat them up.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Julian, get your ass back to school or I'll come over there and kick it.

It's not worth it. I know people that have dropped out, the only ones that really made the right choice are those who simply aren't school oriented and do badly in class. I have the feeling you're not like them, go back.

Hey, I'm coming to Chicago in a few weeks, so you won't come down here


Seriously though, I am going to college, so I'm not just completely quitting school altogether.

Well that's good!

When are you coming to Chicago, I hope I'll be back in the states by then.

You live in Chicago?
I live near Chicago .

ZOMG

We're planing a Chicago Escapism. Probably to a Bulls game sometime next year. You should, like, come. Like.

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

I'd reckon I'm approximately the second most nerdy guy at my high school, yet I've never been bullied. What am I missing out on?

How obviously nerdy are you?
I'm fairly nerdy but you probably wouldn't guess if you looked at me.

A damn fine question, one that I can't answer due to the fact that I'm not an outside observer. Not really the kind of data that you can get on your own.

 

[Dags90]

If you want you can always take some sort of test that gives you a high-school diploma without the high school.

This. 10 times this.

I "dropped out" of high school and started university early, wish I had done it sooner. That's my only real regret.

 

[Proteus214]

At one point I was very close to dropping out of college out of pure frustration with the academics. I just took the lumps and made it to graduation. For me, everything after freshman year absolutely sucked, but I'm glad I stuck with it; not for the experience, but for the diploma. These days you'd be crazy not to have at least a high school equivalence degree just to be able to get by in your adult life.

Get back on it and doors will open. It's not easy, but in the long run it's worth it.

 

[Breaker deGodot]

It's funny, people tell me that I'm so irritating and stupid that instead of wanting to hurt me, they just want to stand back and observe. It disturbs me.

 

[Mr.Kitetsu]

i do not get laughed at for i am a husky fello
as i was a drop out for 5 or so months
i can say this: i was ashamed i took the easy way out
it humbled me and made me more likable. people then taught i was a pussy
and as such reverted back to old days yore

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

man dropping out of high school was the best decision of my life... cause i went to college a year eariler AND THEN STILL GOT MY HS DIPLOMA OHHHHHHHHHH suck it

I love how obnoxious you are, really, I do.

 

[Julianking93]

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I did, the teacher never did anything.

In all actuality, much of the bullying came from the teachers themselves.

That's why it was so hard for me to deal. I couldn't turn to a single person.

When are you coming to Chicago, I hope I'll be back in the states by then.

Some time in August I think, but I'm not positive. Where are you now?

You left school?!?! I can't believe that!!

Indeed I did. Is it that surprising?

 

[rekabdarb]

man dropping out of high school was the best decision of my life... cause i went to college a year eariler AND THEN STILL GOT MY HS DIPLOMA OHHHHHHHHHH suck it

I love how obnoxious you are, really, I do.

unfortunately i had an afterthought when i wrote it so i decided to go back in and edit it to include my thought

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

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I am not a drop-out but I find bullying to be higly disgusting.
The school authority figures allowing scum to make others miserable is enraging!

Did you go to a teacher about the bullying?

Having been bullied when I was younger, I feel this course of action doesn't work. When I was a kid, I got bullied for being fat, so I'd get pissed off and lash out. I'd then get in trouble for responding to abuse and everyone else involved would get off.

In fact, the school then decided I had "anger management issues" and put me in special classes for 2 years. So I learned to colour in pretty things instead of what a paedophile is, like everyone is. Of course, when my parents confronted the headteacher, after about a month of these classes and me still being bullied, she just said "Oh, there's no bullying in our school".

So I haven't had good experiences with the "Tell a teacher" option.

That is why I asked that question.

"The school authority figures allowing scum to make others miserable is enraging!"

Indeed. Let us rage.

 

[Captain Pancake]

From what I hear bullying seems so much more extreme in America. Maybe kids just don't know where the boundaries are, like don't pick on the kid in the wheelchair, the kid with mental problems, because that's just sick. Over here people like I get picked on, but not to such an extreme that anybody leaves and it really seems to taper off towards the end of the 6 years of high school. I can't really vouch for the states because I have no honest idea to what it's like over there.

 

[ultimateownage]

Well, being the same age you where when you left and in a similar (if not quite has harsh) situation that you were in I feel inclined to comment. Basically, although I get bullied (I do have several friends though, if they can be called that. The two faced bastards.) I am going to push through it, 'cause it's either this school, a school that was almost shut down due to being so bad, or no school at all. If I chose either of the latter options it would severely harm my chances at getting good qualifications. My brother taught me that, he maybe went to school a 1/10 th of the time, now he's 19, was fired from a paper round, was fired from Krispy Kreme, and can't get a job even though he has new qualifications from an IT college. I don't want to end up like that, the school I'm going to has won prestigious awards and has extremely good classes and GCSE/ A level options that work perfectly for me. So hopefully, at the end of this, I should hopefully have the same, or slightly better qualifications than the bullies (The bullies are ridiculously clever.) and I will leave them behind me.

*edit* Like the guy above me said, it seems you Americans get bullied way more than us. It isn't helping my opinion of America.

 

[reg42]

Well I don't think it was very smart to drop out, but I can't speak from your perspective at all. I was only bullied a small bit in grade 8 and now I do pretty well socially.

I guess what I'm saying is that what you did wasn't smart, logically, but had I been in your circumstances I'm not sure I would've done things differently.

 

[rekabdarb]

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shoulda brought a tape recorder and then after the days events brought it to the principle or dean, if they do nothing verbal abuse is a legal offense if i'm not mistaken so policia adonde van

 

[Kedgeree]

I left High School - at 16 years old - as I was beginning to find the work too difficult and could only see myself getting worse from then on. So I left and went straight to College. And I must say. It was the best decision I've made so far.

 

[Sronpop]

While I didn't drop out of school, I did drop out of college a few months ago after 3 years, and now I have nothing to show for it, and I can hand on heart say that I know I made the right decision. I hated my course intensely and could not relate to any of the material whatsoever, the only reason I was in the class so long was because I enjoyed the friends I made and I thought that that's what I was suppose to do/what was expected of me. Well needless to say when all the friends in class got intensely busy, the fun of it wore off and I just thought to myself, I hate this, I don't like the work I am doing, and I never will, what good is a degree in this if I never want to work with this stuff. I refuse to let something I hate dominate my life, especially when I have a choice. The choice I made was to leave and I am glad I did.

Only problem is now I am in limbo a bit as I am not sure what I want to do with my life so right now I am just working as much as I can in my shitty part time job and trying to enjoy myself as much as possible while I find some meaning to life.

As for dropping out of high school, the same thing as above should apply, BUT if you drop out of high school you really should make all the effort in the world to get your high school qualification. Not having an education at all severely puts you at a disadvantage in life. For college its different since its a specialization, but a high school education is very important.

I hope that give you some help. You need to realize, you don't have to conform to what society says you should do. There are so many other paths in life other than the School->College->Job you hate path. I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

man dropping out of high school was the best decision of my life... cause i went to college a year eariler AND THEN STILL GOT MY HS DIPLOMA OHHHHHHHHHH suck it

I love how obnoxious you are, really, I do.

unfortunately i had an afterthought when i wrote it so i decided to go back in and edit it to include my thought

It was better without the edit.

 

[no oneder]

You left school?!?! I can't believe that!!

Indeed I did. Is it that surprising?

Quite, yes. But in a good way. I just didn't expect that.