What do you think of dropping out of school?

Your opinions please. Or do the poll.

i think it's a bad idea

Hmm good points, I'm doing this as a project at college from my teacher.

As soon as I turned 16, I took the CHSPE and dropped out of high school. I'm in community college now.

I hope that poll doesn't make me look like a loser; and I refuse to vote with those options.

it isnt recommended. these days most jobs need collegeweezyfb

yes and no. Depends on your degree.

The market is flooded with people with BS degrees. So if youre, for example, taking a science major I say stay with it til you get your masters.

And always, ALWAYS finish high school.

College, meh, if you try and find it is not for you, drop out; dont waste any more time and money, it will always be there when youre 30 or 40

Not going to college is one thing, but dropping out of high school just out of laziness. Not cool.

depends there are some who do it to run a family business and take over. some have great trade jobs (plumbing, home construction) that can make a great living and college is not necessary...but these i assume are the exception and dropping out to join your band is prob a bad idea

unless you are a millionaire already...dropping out of school would be really a dumb choice.

btw 4 of my close friends all dropped out of school and they are not doing to well now....

Further Education isn't always the best option for some people...

I think it's a very bad idea.

Quitting is for quitters. :shock:mindstorm

If I stayed in high school I wasn't going to graduate anyway.

The CHSPE (literally) saved my life. People like me need it, and high school is obviously not for all people.

In this country, I'd advise getting your GCSE's before you end full time education.

[QUOTE="weezyfb"]it isnt recommended. these days most jobs need collegemrbojangles25

yes and no. Depends on your degree.

The market is flooded with people with BS degrees. So if youre, for example, taking a science major I say stay with it til you get your masters.

And always, ALWAYS finish high school.

College, meh, if you try and find it is not for you, drop out; dont waste any more time and money, it will always be there when youre 30 or 40

The market is flooded with degrees period. Higher education got too overhyped starting in the 80's, and as a result every degree has become bloated. Even doctorates and professional degrees are suffering from bloat.

The market has changed. Back in the 70's, when our parents were college age, merely having any kind of four year degree was a big deal. Nowadays everyone has a degree now college isn't as valuable. In fact, it should probably be avoided unless you want a few kinds of careers:

- Business
- Science
- Medicine
- Engineering
- Law

And even then the only degrees that let you get to work right out of undergrad are engineering and business. The others require a doctorate. Worse is that science and law are both extremely bloated right now and as a result you need to be in the top 1% to have a decent chance at ever making a career out of them. I don't know how the medical market is holding up, but from what I hear both it and pharmacy are still doing quite well.

Every other major is not worth going to college for. If you major in something worthless like human development or philosophy you're going to have nothing but debt when you graduate. Even if you want to be a professor in a humanities field be aware that humanities are in the midst of an academic armaggeddon right now. The pay is terrible and job rates are abysmal even for ivy league grads.

So yeah: science, law, or business = go to college, and then grad school. Anything else = go to trade school or directly into the workforce.

School isn't for everyone so I support anyone that feels they can get along without it. But I think most people should at least get a 2 year college education.

The pool choices are terrible.

None the less, there is nothing wrong with it if you are truly sick of school, you can always finish it later in half the time if you want to (for highschool that is).

It's not like if you drop you are doomed to hop between crappy mcdo jobs for the rest of your life.

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[QUOTE="weezyfb"]it isnt recommended. these days most jobs need collegegameguy6700

yes and no. Depends on your degree.

The market is flooded with people with BS degrees. So if youre, for example, taking a science major I say stay with it til you get your masters.

And always, ALWAYS finish high school.

College, meh, if you try and find it is not for you, drop out; dont waste any more time and money, it will always be there when youre 30 or 40

The market is flooded with degrees period. Higher education got too overhyped starting in the 80's, and as a result every degree has become bloated. Even doctorates and professional degrees are suffering from bloat.

The market has changed. Back in the 70's, when our parents were college age, merely having any kind of four year degree was a big deal. Nowadays everyone has a degree now college isn't as valuable. In fact, it should probably be avoided unless you want a few kinds of careers:

- Business
- Science
- Medicine
- Engineering
- Law

And even then the only degrees that let you get to work right out of undergrad are engineering and business. The others require a doctorate. Worse is that science and law are both extremely bloated right now and as a result you need to be in the top 1% to have a decent chance at ever making a career out of them. I don't know how the medical market is holding up, but from what I hear both it and pharmacy are still doing quite well.

Every other major is not worth going to college for. If you major in something worthless like human development or philosophy you're going to have nothing but debt when you graduate. Even if you want to be a professor in a humanities field be aware that humanities are in the midst of an academic armaggeddon right now. The pay is terrible and job rates are abysmal even for ivy league grads.

So yeah: science, law, or business = go to college, and then grad school. Anything else = go to trade school or directly into the workforce.

could not have said it better myself.

Though this is from a purely practical perspective.

If you want the whole "college experience" then by all means get into a party school and do your four years.

People should only drop out if there's a reason to. For example, if your parents are in a tight situation and you need to work to help them, or something close to that.

I didn't think much of it at the time because I was so busy partying. :(

People should only drop out if there's a reason to. For example, if your parents are in a tight situation and you need to work to help them, or something close to that.

Code-Llama

yea, you can also take a "leave of absence"

I essentially ran out of money and "dropped out" for two quarters and built up some funds so I could continue going to school. It took six years, but hey, I got it done.

college was a bittersweet experience for me lol :?

Less competition for me :P

yea, you can also take a "leave of absence"

I essentially ran out of money and "dropped out" for two quarters and built up some funds so I could continue going to school. It took six years, but hey, I got it done.

college was a bittersweet experience for me lol :?

mrbojangles25

I did it to take a job, but in general it isn't a good idea.duxup

I did it. For some people, dropping out is the right choice.

Dropping out of high school is probably one of the worst decisions one could make.

Dropping out of high school is probably one of the worst decisions one could make.

carrot-cake

What're you talking about? My high school had only 49% of people graduate. Its worse if you go a little south.

Only if you have something lined up.

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Dropping out of high school is probably one of the worst decisions one could make.

smc91352

What're you talking about? My high school had only 49% of people graduate. Its worse if you go a little south.

That just means 51% of your class was dumb, lazy or had a very uncommon circumstance preventing their graduation.

It's Incredibly Stupid Idea that you will regret for the rest of your life.

It's a very very bad idea, unless you have something else lined up for your life, like family business or end up winning a billion dollars or whatever.

dropping out of high school is highly unrecommendable, but if you drop out of college because it isn't for you, or the college you are going to just isn't working out for you, that is understandle and not as bad as dropping out of high school.

If You are a good thinker i recommend it.
But if You're not You're going to get into trouble.

At least finish Year 10 and get the School Certificate (or whatever it is called elsewhere). Staying to finish High School (Year 12) is really good if you don't have a job in mind.

I'd say in the hope of getting a job stay on to get a university degree. By 2020 here the government wants something like 40% of all those aged between 25 and 30 to have a university degree.

It's a terrible idea if you want to get anywhere in your adult years.