1 reason why i dropped out of school

[Al Swearegen]

I dropped out of school in 7th grade. I got a GED in a few months when I was 17.

How did they let you drop out in seventh grade?  I thought you had to be at least 16.

Long story.

I would have dropped out too if I had only made it to 7th grade @ 16 years old. 

7th grade is hard.

http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/northwst/standards/grade_07.pdf

I never failed a grade, period. I completed 7th grade, I was around 13 years old.

Well, looks like another fail for the Pentagram Irrelevancy Group.

There is a group of people who think Pentagram is irrelevant?   

The P.I.G. group is a group of users on I2 who collectively try to convince the rest of the users of this site that whatever I post is irrelevant because of things that I have done in the past, or just because of their intolerance towards me, or their sexual desire to make me squeal.

You are such a ham

[Natalia Evans]

Am I the only here who didn't drop out? I know I would have probably if I didn't get any extra help in school. I mainstreamed special ed and was on the IEP growing up. But I never went to college for a degree. I did take fun classes like Spanish and did art and did slow pitch softball. Then I tried to take a fun course again in 2009 and got kicked out after two classes. I should have asked for an aid and accommodations but I thought I do fine on my own but I forgot about my struggles because I had not been in school for years. But it wasn't the teachers' fault because they could not provide me the help I needed because they had other students in class that also needed help and I needed it constantly.

[P7PSP]

I dropped out of school in 7th grade. I got a GED in a few months when I was 17.

How did they let you drop out in seventh grade?  I thought you had to be at least 16.

Long story.

I would have dropped out too if I had only made it to 7th grade @ 16 years old. 

7th grade is hard.

http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us/northwst/standards/grade_07.pdf

I never failed a grade, period. I completed 7th grade, I was around 13 years old.

Well, looks like another fail for the Pentagram Irrelevancy Group.

Feeling hurt over a bit of low grade humor? Do you need a ?

[midlifeaspie]

Am I the only here who didn't drop out?

Indeed.  Good thing you stayed in all the way to perfect your reading and comprehension skills 

[Parts]

I thought school was easy aside from language.  I did have some problems at time though with other subject mainly do to disinterest, laziness and being easily distracted.  I made it though high school and college without dropping out getting an associates in marine science  and BS in environmental biology.  While I did   good overall in my major due to the problems mentioned above courses that didn't interest me I did enough to pass and that's about it. 

[P7PSP]

I thought school was easy aside from language.  I did have some problems at time though with other subject mainly do to disinterest, laziness and being easily distracted.  I made it though high school and college without dropping out getting an associates in marine science  and BS in environmental biology.  While I did   good overall in my major due to the problems mentioned above courses that didn't interest me I did enough to pass and that's about it.

I like to think George Costanza pretended to be a Marine Biologist because of you. 

[Adam]

I left school at 16 and went to college. My school had a sixth form, but I hated the place

[renaeden]

Am I the only here who didn't drop out?

As I said, I didn't drop out, I just failed. I ended up going to seven different schools which probably didn't help. I failed Years 8 and 9 and probably would have gone to special ed in Year 10 had I not changed schools again and escaped it. Because they had been sending me to the school psych throughout Year 9 to figure out why I was failing.

Then I fast-tracked Year 10 and caught up to everyone else and completed Year 11 normally. But then by Year 12 I had had enough of school and then my friend committed suicide and I no longer wanted to be there even though I did actually go. Year 12 kind of fizzled out.

I could have done the STAT to get into uni but I think I would have failed it. So I did Ontrack which is a program for people with disabilities and/or from low socio-economic backgrounds to enable them to get into uni. It taught me about uni rules, how to write an essay, how to reference, how to do internet searches properly, etc. I think I would definitely have had a hard time at uni if I didn't do Ontrack first.

Also, for those people who think it is too late for uni, I believe it never is. I am 35 and heaps older than the majority at uni but I am not looked down upon because of it. Because I have had more life experiences, that is an advantage.

After this degree I am thinking of doing another at a different uni. I really like psychology but I also like to work with things so I want to learn medical imaging.

[Callaway]

School wasn't good for the majority of us, was it?

Happy minority here.  I loved school.  I would do it full-time as a career if they would let me.  Thought about getting my Masters in English Lit just so I could teach community college for a crappy wage as a way to stay in an educational environment. 

Ask me again in three years and I might hate it, but right now I am really looking forward to going back.

I did pretty well in school also.

If you find that you don't like being a lawyer, IMO, you should get a Ph. D. and be a university professor instead of teaching in a community college if you like the academic environment.

My husband has been a professor and he also taught for a while in a community college as a part-time second job.  I think he became frustrated because he was sort of expected to give passing grades to students who couldn't be bothered to do the work.

[midlifeaspie]

School wasn't good for the majority of us, was it?

Happy minority here.  I loved school.  I would do it full-time as a career if they would let me.  Thought about getting my Masters in English Lit just so I could teach community college for a crappy wage as a way to stay in an educational environment. 

Ask me again in three years and I might hate it, but right now I am really looking forward to going back.

I did pretty well in school also.

If you find that you don't like being a lawyer, IMO, you should get a Ph. D. and be a university professor instead of teaching in a community college if you like the academic environment.

My husband has been a professor and he also taught for a while in a community college as a part-time second job.  I think he became frustrated because he was sort of expected to give passing grades to students who couldn't be bothered to do the work.

Didn't want to spend all my time in the politics of the university system.  Publish or perish, etc.

If I don't like practicing as a lawyer I am SOL considering the debt load I am taking on to get this degree.   

[Callaway]

School wasn't good for the majority of us, was it?

Happy minority here.  I loved school.  I would do it full-time as a career if they would let me.  Thought about getting my Masters in English Lit just so I could teach community college for a crappy wage as a way to stay in an educational environment. 

Ask me again in three years and I might hate it, but right now I am really looking forward to going back.

I did pretty well in school also.

If you find that you don't like being a lawyer, IMO, you should get a Ph. D. and be a university professor instead of teaching in a community college if you like the academic environment.

My husband has been a professor and he also taught for a while in a community college as a part-time second job.  I think he became frustrated because he was sort of expected to give passing grades to students who couldn't be bothered to do the work.

Didn't want to spend all my time in the politics of the university system.  Publish or perish, etc.

If I don't like practicing as a lawyer I am SOL considering the debt load I am taking on to get this degree.   

Good points, both about the politics of the university system and about the debt.  You probably will wind up with a lot of debt even with the financial package you were offered.  Are you working full time and going to school full time too?

[midlifeaspie]

School wasn't good for the majority of us, was it?

Happy minority here.  I loved school.  I would do it full-time as a career if they would let me.  Thought about getting my Masters in English Lit just so I could teach community college for a crappy wage as a way to stay in an educational environment. 

Ask me again in three years and I might hate it, but right now I am really looking forward to going back.

I did pretty well in school also.

If you find that you don't like being a lawyer, IMO, you should get a Ph. D. and be a university professor instead of teaching in a community college if you like the academic environment.

My husband has been a professor and he also taught for a while in a community college as a part-time second job.  I think he became frustrated because he was sort of expected to give passing grades to students who couldn't be bothered to do the work.

Didn't want to spend all my time in the politics of the university system.  Publish or perish, etc.

If I don't like practicing as a lawyer I am SOL considering the debt load I am taking on to get this degree.   

Good points, both about the politics of the university system and about the debt.  You probably will wind up with a lot of debt even with the financial package you were offered.  Are you working full time and going to school full time too?

The American Bar Association (which accredits all law schools) forbids first year full-time law students from working more than 20 hours a week (they highly recommend fewer than 10).  As I am the sole earner for a family of 4, we would all starve in a refrigerator box if I started working part time.  Therefore I am forced to go to law school part-time and work full-time.  This means 4 years including summers (24 credits a year) instead of 3 years with summers off (30 credits a year).

[earthboundmisfit]

...I work around what i am poor in and excel in what i am good in and with the right company and environment i do exceedingly well.

That's the key right there.

["couldbecousin"]

...I work around what i am poor in and excel in what i am good in and with the right company and environment i do exceedingly well.

That's the key right there.

  This is worth bumping.  It's good advice. 

[renaeden]

What if you don't excel in anything?