okay, so how many of you are high school dropouts?

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*sobs*

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 05:35 (twenty-two years ago)

my ex girlfriend was

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 05:43 (twenty-two years ago)

me, technically. there was some kind of mixup, and I didn't have enough classes to graduate, so I left and got my GED the same month.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.sjca.edu -- I mean it, Melissa, it could be the place...

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Technically, me. I attempted the 11th Grade twice, dropped out the first time due to mental illness, was forced to go back and repeat 11th grade cause I wasn't 16 yet, then got Mono, spent 3 months in bed and just gave up. Though I did go and get a GED as soon as I was old enough and swanned into art school at the age of 17.

― kate, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Me. People who graduate are total chumps--the GED test takes like 90 minutes (though they give you _eight hours_) and bam you're done with high school. Though of course it's taken me this long (4 years) to actually get off my ass and go to college but that's another thread.

Dave Thomas I believe was a high school dropout, and he saved the world from a tragic square hamburger shortage.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

You are kidding, right? There are only FOUR high school drop-outs on this entire board? Come on, don't give us high school drop-outs a bad name! I mean, even an IDIOT can get on AOL...

― kate, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Peter Jennings dropped out of high school.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

so did homer simpson

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I only have a high school diploma because I threatened to drop out, so they gave me one. (This is the school that gave a student class credit for the community service she had to do because of truancy charges -- they were desperate to graduate everyone.)

So I'm not a dropout, but I coulda been, darn it.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Mike North, a sports-talk show broadcaster here in Chicago, dropped out of high school. He started a hot dog stand to make a living. On the side he bought time in a studio and produced tapes of himself. Eventually a radio station in town gave him a shot. A couple months ago he was rewarded with a new $1.5 million / year contract.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

ME! REPRESENT! I dropped out of high school at age 15 and now I am a junior at Columbia. It is the best path to everything!

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

as an educator I must speak up and say that graduating from HS is the best way to go. ahem.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Me - I dropped out at 15 and started at a Junior/Community College - eventually took the "CHSPE" and passed with 100, and it allows me to claim that I have a HS. Degree instead of a GED - but then the colleges want my HS records and there aren't any...sheesh.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Peter Jennings dropped out? But he's Peter Jennings!

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

took the "CHSPE" and passed with 100
Explain.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 27 February 2003 07:57 (twenty-two years ago)

California High School Proficency Exam - actually counts as a diploma rather than a GED - basically like taking all off the finals for all of your high school classes at the same time. It was uggy.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 27 February 2003 08:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I wonder if there is any equivalent in Illinois.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 27 February 2003 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't the GED country-wide, or is that only NY State? Graduate Equivalent Diploma or something like that.

Dropping out of high school and doing nothing else = DUD.

Dropping out of high school, taking a test in place of graduating and going on to college in some form = CLASSIC!!!

I really thought the GED was some kind of life-saver when I found out about it. The idea of spending 2 more years in high school was so awful I kept trying to slash my wrists. It was a pretty hardcore test, I think it was two or three days in a row of 4-hour exams, it was really comprehensive. But I scored 90%, which was like graduating with honours or something.

If I had kids, I'd insist they dropped out of high school and get a GED. Fuck, I'd probably homeschool them.

― kate, Thursday, 27 February 2003 09:15 (twenty-two years ago)

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