I am almost certain you have to be at least sixteen years old to drop out or quit school.
At least that is what I thought I may very well be wrong though.
How exactly does one drop out or quit?

I do know of some people myself with very good reasons to drop out of High School. High School is *one* system of learning and to assume that *everyone* will fit and learn well in that one system is just illogical.

a person can be completly off the game (cos the school system is like a jumping through hoops game) in High School and be perfectly succesful in college because college is very diferent than High school. or some can be star students in High school and be completly lost in college (i know some of those too).

the only thing you need to be succesfull is self motivation.

I am getting a bit old too, I am 23 and still a Jr. in college. its just taking me long. no big deal. had a couple years off. had some slow semesters. etc. nobody cares how old you are in college...

I would drop out but here is ten reasons I can't

Grounded for life
eh nothing to do
get yelled at
all my crap is taken away
nothing to do but sleep
bordom
just wait till I graduate from college
gonna work for the military
im going off topic
right
ohwell.







-mechvegita-

First of all, why do you want to go back to school? It defies the purpose of quitting! I'm not saying that you're wrong for quitting, nor am I suggesting that you shouldn't learn any more than your current knowledge capacity holds. Though, you really don't need schooling to learn.

As for GEDs, they're not so hot at all. Sure, they're alright, but you're better off going with another program--getting a CDG (or something like that, I can't remember what it's called off-hand). You take some work home from a school, do it, bring it back, get tested there, occasionally, and should you pass everything, you get an actual high school diploma from whatever school you do this testing in (certain schools don't hold this program). My mother has done this and has a diplome in the West Islip High School and she wasn't even in that district.

And for my curiousity, how did you get out of school so early?

I'm 16. I quit school when I was 14. Like you said, I just "slipped through the cracks." Now it's something I regret and I'm going to try to go back. Graduating a year or two behind my original class is better than not graduating at all.

As for you, you might be too advanced to go back, but it's something that you'd have to talk to your local board of education about. If you are too advanced, you could go for a GED or a correspondence program. I'm sure there are other options too.

Take care, and don't give up!!!

Um, where are your parents? Why hasnt anyone asked this? My mother may have not been the best to me, but I went to elementary school, and she made sure of it. High school, maybe even Junior High i can understand how they would let someone fall through, but 5th grade?

I stopped going regurely in Junior high, just life was more fun for me i preferred the party life to the school life, and i had a lot of problems with my home life and i just wanted to be out of the house, and away from people at school. The thing i hate is that they let me do it, i mean i didnt start going back regurely until probably my sophmore year. They should have held me back each year, because i never did work and I hardly ever went to school. But I live in SoCal and is over populated, they tend to just let kids go, because they have others to worry about. But i never actually quit school.

I dont know, how you will be able to get back onto school. Im guessing home schooling, or ILP...but you have to learn stuff from junior high im sure, not just highschool so that might be difficult.

As for the statement above about there never being a good reason to leave school - 1. Im sick, and sometimes i cant even get to school i hurt so bad, but i still go- but if i didnt would you really hold it against me? I can think of many other reasons why one wouldn't finish school, and it not be bad. And, its a lie that you cant get a good paying job without school, sure its hard to advance at jobs, but money is money.

If you wanted to go back you would have to take a knowledge test to see what grade you should be placed in and then you will have to start again wherever the test results show you would be able to start. I'm sure you wouldn't start again in the 5th grade but probably higher up than that. I am not really sure how it works exactly though.

yes in Germany you have to be 16
i didnt drop school but when i had my examen i didnt continue school but i could have done a better examen so maybe iam continue school
i know many people who droped school i even know 2 persons who dropped at the age of 16 i think dropping school isnt good except you know what your job will be but most times school is much more fun than working in germany you can go to afterwork school when you have a job and want to have a better education so you theoreticly could drop school go to work and when you want to continue school you coold go to "afterwork school" and than you can go to a univerity because i think making a exam at after work school is much easier than making a exam in a regular school

i left my high school nearly year before last year what happen was school couldnt offer what i wanted so i decided to finish that year off after my exam.

Last Year i went and did a course in webdevelopment in town which i passed later so i do most of my website work and work from home as well as my part-time job.