Can you quit at 16 without parents permission?

i like what you have to say man.

 

Reading comprehension isn't so big on the GED test.

 

I was thinking the same thing. lol


To the OP:
We are in a recession. Have you looked at the price of food and gas lately? That alone would motivate me to stay in school.

 

fuck school

 

that's what I said....

 

What exactly is the big deal about staying in school over there? Can you basically train for nothing if you drop out? and do nothing but work at supermarkets etc?

 

I graduated high school and I'm going to college now, but if I could go back, I would have dropped out at 16, got my GED, entered the military at 17 with parents permission, then I'd be out of the military around my 21st birthday WITH a bachelor's degree AND job experience AND $$$ saved. (I'm a big saver).


Instead, I'm working my ass off 40 hrs a week, going to school full time, and barely paying all my shit. Oh, and I have 3 more years of this before I graduate. What a fucken mistake it was to graduate high school. :huh:

High school is a fucken joke, and that's MY opinion so don't flame me please

 

yeah, drop out of school and leech off of people who work. if you don't have a high school degree, then you will get a replaceable-minimum-waged job. You will have to get assistance to be able to live. Milk is $4+ a gallon. Bread is going up. Everything is going up in price. No one has helped me financially while I am going to school, so why should I support anyone else? Oh, and I didn't get any financial aid. If we're going to help people, then we should help EVERYONE.

 

Thats actually a very good thought....fuck the military, but thats just me. But if you want to join then thats a pretty smart way to do it.

 

You can dropout at 16 without parents permission, but I wouldn't do it. It's a lot easier if you stay in and cope. I dropped out at 16 without permission and went to work. Eventually I got my GED and went on to college and got my degree, I would have done it sooner had I stayed in High School. I guess I wasn't ready for it. Everybody goes at their own pace. Thing is if you stay in school you go through the educational system with your own age/peer group instead of doing it later when you're older and everybody is younger.

If you drop out now you can get a job at minimum wage but you're stuck in it, if you stay in school and go to college when you get out you can get a job earning $600. to a $1000. dollars a week, which would you prefer?

 

If you set some goals for HS it might be so bad, ask yourself where you'd like to be when you graduate, what kind of job would you like to have, how much you'd like to make, come up with some kind of plan. HS curricula is often geared for the job market, you could sit down with your guidance counselor and have a class schedule based on the type of job you'd want and when you graduate bingo! you could walk into a good paying job. It's gotta be your plan something you do for yourself and fuck all these assholes in HS, most of them are jerking off anyway! It's completely attainable but you gotta set your sights on it. Hell you could do it in 2 yrs...

 

lmao
I agree with you man. Fuck the military. Yes it's a good idea if you have no idea where you want to go with life (how I felt at the time of the idea), but yeah fuck the military.

 

Hi.

You're situation sounds exactly like mine.

I dropped out of Wetumpka High School in Alabama after 10th grade.

Why? Because I couldn't fucking handle the rednecks. And I wasn't learning anything. All of my teachers were stupider than I was.

Anyway, as far as I remember, you CAN drop out w/o parents permission in Alabama. However, if you don't get a job they will take your driver's license away. At least that's what all my ready-to-drop-out or dropped-out friends told me.

I think they might NOT take it away if you get your GED, which is what I did and they didn't take mine. But I think that's just because it's Alabama and they're all fucking idiots and they can't keep track of that kind of shit. (For example, it took the state two years to actually send me a paper copy of my GED, after I called them every month.)

Anyway, it's all up to you. I know if I hadn't done it I would have killed myself for sure, so I went ahead and picked the difficult road of dropping out instead of the easy one of suicide. Now I'm in and out of community college, and I really like it that way. I have the freedom to take just a few classes and to change my mind and just take interesting classes until I'm ready to pursue a degree.

Good luck.

 

seriously, this society is so menacing that we contemplate blowing our heads off because we're told we have obligations to the idiots.
I know this all too well.
Fuck "high school" it is a total sham.
The GED is so easy and just as good, I don't understand why so many of you waste your time. Do not feel obligated.

You are a free being....

But yeah,
welcome to america
everything's expensive now
so um
be smart
or die.

 

my experence with both the public school system and my parents taught me one thing: never get married or, have childern. i never have done either. i could never bring myself to, have childern and turn them over to the fascist low-life that run the public school system. childern are better off not ever being born then, being turn over to the shit-asses that run the public school system! at the time i was in the public school system in texas; the northeast school district was the "best" in texas and, third "best" in the nation (u.s.a.) IF THIS IS WHAT THE "BEST" AND THIRD "BEST" ARE LIKE... I SURE WOULD HATE TO SEE WHAT THE WORST IS LIKE! why don't your ask you parents to enroll you into keystone national high school. keystone is a non-tradtional high school which is a fully accreded public high school by the state of pennsylvania. i don't have the web address for keystone at my finger tips right now but, i'm sure if you google something like keystone national high school or, keystone high school, you could find information about it. keystone will allow you to get a high school diploma with out having to go to a school building. it kind of like "a school with out walls." a high school diploma carries more weight then a g.e.d. a high school deploma says to employers that "you stuck out being shitted and walked upond." a g.e.d. says "you could not stick out the hard shit." i don't buy into that shit! i've ment alot of people who drop out and/or failed at school who, have much more going for them upstares then, most people with a deploma.

 

If my parents were dead I'd probably think about dropping out. They aren't though and I would wreck their lives if I dropped out, so I won't. I agree I could do fine without a diploma, but hey I might as well finish high school and go to college because college will be a great time. Just force yourself to do 2 more years...It's alot safer than dropping out. If you drop out you're parents wont support you either. I know you might say you don't need them, but my sister fucked up the relationship with my parents very badly and now shes on her own and having a hard ass time, and she went to college too.

 

High school is highly over rated IMO.. the whole myth that you will be nothing without it is bullshit.
When you are younger in school the system tells you just do everything they say and you will have a glorious, easy and profitable life. It’s a lie, only the few on the top of the pyramid enjoy that and they are usually born into it.

When I was 16 I was sick of it and went in and signed my self out, the principal told me that I would be a loser, the biggest mistake of my life, blablabla I can’t even work at McDonalds or go to the army.
A lot of laws are different now days so I don’t know if you can just quit at 16 anymore.

After I quit I got a job remodeling homes and learned the construction trades after a bit my family kept bugging I need to get my GED, so one day I went down and just took all the tests in 4 hours and luckily I passed them all and GED diploma in 4 hours..

A GED won’t get you to Yale or Harvard but *Reality* what percentage of people are going the route anyway? .02% .002% .0002%? and if someone is sick of school at 16 you probably aren’t ready for 6 more years back to back.

All the guys that graduated from the high school I dropped out of none of them went anywhere they are construction workers, department store workers, the army I don’t know any of them that used their over rated diploma to go get a Harvard law degree and roll in the millionaire dollar club A few went to state collage for a couple of years but that’s about it.

After about 5 or 10 years of shitty jobs I went and took a lot of collage classes on my spare time, it was fun I loved going to school at that point of my life. But for every cool well paying job you can get with a collage degree the are 10,000 shitty low paying jobs.

I know tons of people with very nice collage degrees working in department stores low paying county jobs where the janitor makes almost as much or working jobs they were trained for in night school after they graduated collage.

A GED will probably take you everywhere you need to go high school diplomas are highly over rated.

The single situation is the best you will every have in your life in high school you will probably be surrounded by the most available single people in your whole life. Once you get out you will be picking through nasty bar sluts and single welfare moms with 5 kids the rest of your life.
Just kidding but it is probably the most single people you will get to interact with.

 

So you think Id be ok to quit, get my GED, go to community college and graduate those classes?

 

Personally I think community collage is a great idea there is tons of stuff you can go into with a degree from them and most community collages you can transfer to regular collages. Community collages are much cheaper then state collages I know a lot of people that had to drop out of state collages because they ran out of money.
Tec collages can be good also but you have to be careful and make sure there are jobs for a lot of the education they are selling.

I think state collages are good for people with trust funds and who are really focused but you have to work hard and be at the top of your class to excel in state collages to make it in the job markets after wards, so unless you are a focused over achiever I think state collages are a waste of time and money.
I know some one who had a 4 year degree and couldn't find a job for years and then went to a tec school for networking and now they are making 80,000 a year with the tec school degree.

It is always free to go talk to the admissions at the community collages and see what classes they have and how much it costs, and then go see if there are jobs for that. Some community colleges are really great and some are ghetto. Most people in the education field will always say “stay in high school” so be prepared to hear that a lot.

Dropping out is a big decision I would think about it hard and weigh all your options good.
Just be careful not to fall in a rut if you drop out, a lot of people drop out sit around and get stupid or go and get stuck in a dead end job forever.

 

This is generally bad advice unless you know EXACTLY what you are doing.

Most 16 year olds do not.


"I left home at 17 and moved to california.
*****Explain things in between here*****
I ended up becoming an apprentice recording engineer."


Can you elaborate? It's not like many places give jobs, or anything for that matter, out like candy to run away highschool drop outs with no work experience. I don't think that is very realistic. Especially these days.

Highschool is indeed Bullshit, but unless you know what the hell you are doing, that is generally really bad advice.