Why I Dropped Out of High School

[Cann!bal]

Im guessing that your okay money wise or make a good income online or somewhere else because it's going to be harder to find a job now that you dropped out.

I'm a minimalist. I got a job. It wasn't hard getting one in my experience, but I'm sure it is and I'm not most people. My goals in life don't require a high school diploma.

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No

Sorry I thought this section was for real debates not what some smart-ass kid with a superiority complex thinks about school. You have been supporting your family for months by working a part time job? More like, "I'm still living with my parents and they make me work to help pay for all the expenses."  I couldn't get a GED in your circumstances? Cool story bro. You're the one with the fucked life, not me. I don't know why you would assume I give a fuck about your self-imposed, shitty circumstances. I don't have to worry about getting my GED because I'm not a fucking loser lmao.


"Sex Ed isn't a class, (far as I know). That's a term referring to sexual education lessons in school. Yes, friendship is a part of life, it's an important part of life - like I said it's an essential one. That's why we should be taught how communicate with others, share our feelings, and build relationships. Why would people be forced into friendships? That makes no sense. You totally can teach someone how to think for themselves with showing them how to critically think and shit." -Cannibal


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[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]You throw around the word essential very loosely. Here's a definition for you.[/font]
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adjective: essential

1. 1.
   absolutely necessary

You can't say that friendship is an absolutely necessary part of life. You can survive without friendship. Wrong again retard.

"[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]That's why we should be taught how communicate with others, share our feelings, and build relationships."[/font] - Cannibal
[font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif]Are you legit retarded and/or socially inept? You shouldn't  need to take classes on how to communicate with others, share your feelings, or build relationships. Sorry if you're fucked in the head and can't do that like a normal human being. =/[/font]

35 minute online time, two posts, both on my thread. Your whole entire account has been dedicated to trying to bash me far as I'm concerned, so okay.

Yeah, I still live with my mom like most people who just turned eighteen last month and the majority of my money I give to my mom voluntarily because I'm a minimalist. And try coming up with something clever. That whole insult bit was like a 2.5/10.

Fucked up life and a loser, huh? I've already said my life is great and better than ever since I dropped out and I couldn't give less of a fuck what you thought of me. You can reinforce the status quo all you want because of your insecurities about money and your conventional ideas of success or some shit, but my life is awesome. I don't need a high school diploma for my goals. And my point is going straight past your thick skull. You couldn't get a GED either, so who the fuck are you say shit about it? It doesn't fucking matter if you would never attempt to get one. And don't forget: I'm the one enjoying life and making money while you endure your mind numbing existence in school.

Okay. I even left a qualification about that. Don't get too happy.

Okay. I used it loosely. That doesn't mean it therefore doesn't need to be taught in school. Nearly everything, if not everything in high school isn't necessary. However, we can easily recognize knowing how to communicate with someone is pertinent to a functioning human being.

I think it's clear we should have classes on how to communicate, share feelings, and build relationships seeing how rampant and commonplace depression and social dysfunction are.

 

[blast]

Do you plan on getting married one day?

 

[Cann!bal]

"history facts about Mesopotamia"

HOLY SHIT IM CRYING HAHAHAH

I completely agree with you. You're philosophy on education is solid but the topics you discuss and want to learn about are all unethical and have been socially accepted as things that you learn from trial and error and experience. Some may argue that you want to take classes about life itself, when life has many varieties.

Unethical?

I'm not against the process of trial and error. It's just that we should learn these things instead of fucking up and then eventually learning, like most people do. I don't see how you could genuinely say that my proposition is not more fruitful than our current ways. Like I said, it's these things that derail our lives so why would we not teach this stuff so it doesn't, or leastly, doesn't as much?

 

[B a e]

Do you plan on getting married one day?

Is this a serious question bro? Who needs to get married when you have this forum?

 

[Cann!bal]

Do you plan on getting married one day?

I'm not going to say no, however, I don't see it happening as of right now.

Why do you ask?

 

[blast]

I'm not going to say no, however, I don't see it happening as of right now.

Why do you ask?

Honestly, just pure curiosity. Like you've stated you aren't like the normal person and your way of thinking is different from many (not saying it's wrong). So I figured I'd ask just to see your thoughts on the subject.

 

[Color]

Am I allowed to post here, or will you file a restraining order?

Too late.
I can see your point, however, I feel inclined to leave mine. You're right, highschool got to a point where it was less informative. It becomes more of a test of determination at a point. Generally, those who're dedicated will continue to succeed, while the dipshits dwindle. Which has its ups and downsides. I must say, consider college. It's much more informational and relies on both sides more. Your interest pushes the class on, rather. While it's certainly more difficult, it's also far more beneficial.

 

[Cann!bal]

Am I allowed to post here, or will you file a restraining order?

Too late.
I can see your point, however, I feel inclined to leave mine.  You're right, highschool got to a point where it was less informative.  It becomes more of a test of determination at a point.  Generally, those who're dedicated will continue to succeed, while the dipshits dwindle.  Which has its ups and downsides.  I must say, consider college.  It's much more informational and relies on both sides more.  Your interest pushes the class on, rather.  While it's certainly more difficult, it's also far more beneficial.

Nah, fam. Go ahead. It just feels like you're always trying to hop on my dick.

What's stopping you from leaving?

I have considered college and I got my whole list of reasons why I don't like that either. If I'm going to do any more schooling, I see myself at a trade school.

 

[IBakeMuffins]

Seen dis on antoher forum I think ;3 mabeh

 

[Color]

Nah, fam. Go ahead. It just feels like you're always trying to hop on my dick.

What's stopping you from leaving?

I have considered college and I got my whole list of reasons why I don't like that either. If I'm going to do any more schooling, I see myself at a trade school.

Nope.  Just end up on the same things and have opposing opinions, I suppose.  
Also, I'm not sure what you mean, leaving what?

I thought the same.  Always figured it was just spending money for a piece of paper saying I'm smart, but not quite.  I learned as much in my first year as I did all through high school.  From my experience, it's been much more focused on giving you a start, and forcing you to think for yourself, rather than "regurgitating facts", as my history teacher put it.

 

[Cann!bal]

Nope.  Just end up on the same things and have opposing opinions, I suppose.  
Also, I'm not sure what you mean, leaving what?

I thought the same.  Always figured it was just spending money for a piece of paper saying I'm smart, but not quite.  I learned as much in my first year as I did all through high school.  From my experience, it's been much more focused on giving you a start, and forcing you to think for yourself, rather than "regurgitating facts", as my history teacher put it.

Leaving high school. You said you felt inclined.

I bet it is. I'm confident college does offer a much better learning environment than high school. My quarrels with college are the mandatory standards, the debt and the often politically correct atmosphere.

 

[dagger]

It's not even all about what they teach you, you are looking at it the wrong way. It's about building your learning skills and being able to take in and learn and remember diverse information. Because when you get into the "real world" sometimes you are going to have to retain information for your job that might not be "what you are interested in". You should of pushed through and just did what they asked of you. Like @color said its all about building skills such as determination and so on.

 

[Cann!bal]

It's not even about what they teach you, you looking at it the wrong way. It's about building your learning skills and being able to take in and learn and remember diverse information. Because when you get into the real world sometimes you are going to have to retain information for your job that might not be "what you are interested in". You should of pushed through and just did what they asked.

It is about what they teach us. The list I made are of things that deserve to be taught in our schools. Instead, we're forced to endure sessions and sessions of the most mundane, useless and boring shit.

I left early Junior year. I had attained all those skills already. Keyword is sometimes. Sometimes you also don't ever take a job relevant to any of the shit you learned in high school. How are history facts about Mesopotamia or the ability to analyze literature going to help me as a plumber? I had no reason to stay.

I'm not going to stick my ass in the air and let the school system go to town on me so I can get my diploma when it's totally unnecessary to meet my goals.

 

[Condemner]

By the time I was a senior in high school I was making over $70,000/year from my social media business. I had every reason to drop out but I stayed because I know school isn't there to teach you random things it's there to teach your brain how to retain information better and learn at a faster pace. You may not realize it but your last years of high school are the most important.

 

[Cann!bal]

By the time I was a senior in high school I was making over $70,000/year from my social media business.  I had every reason to drop out but I stayed because I know school isn't there to teach you random things it's there to teach your brain how to retain information better and learn at a faster pace.  You may not realize it but your last years of high school are the most important.

That's pretty dumb. It doesn't take four years of high school education to just learn how to retain information and learn quickly. Even then, the sessions we're given aren't worth enduring. Like I said, they're mundane, useless and boring.

 

[Professor]

Without reading the thread in its entirety, I believe it was a very narrow-minded thing of you to do.
Dropping out was the result of numerous excuses you made up, all of which you could satisfy on your own accord. Take the initiative to learn that stuff on your own and understand that college would have taught you everything you're interested in once you completed HS. It was very selfish of you to drop out, especially if you weren't the one paying for the education. The fact that you still don't have your GED is proof that you made the wrong decision and completing HS would've been the gateway to everything else you needed to learn. Although HS is, to a degree, irrelevant in regards to learning material, you'd be surprised as to how critical your HS experience is in solidifying a base structure to grow from.
So, yes HS doesn't teach you very many important things, but that's why all relevant jobs require higher education. A GED or less will get you exactly what you've got - a part-time job and a mediocre lifestyle. You've not done anything by dropping out but perhaps hindered your own progress.
I strongly disagree with what you chose to do, but I wish you the best.

 

[Cann!bal]

Without reading the thread in its entirety, I believe it was a very narrow-minded thing of you to do.
Dropping out was the result of numerous excuses you made up, all of which you could satisfy on your own accord. Take the initiative to learn that stuff on your own and understand that college would have taught you everything you're interested in once you completed HS. It was very selfish of you to drop out, especially if you weren't the one paying for the education. The fact that you still don't have your GED is proof that you made the wrong decision and completing HS would've been the gateway to everything else you needed to learn. Although HS is, to a degree, irrelevant in regards to learning material, you'd be surprised as to how critical your HS experience is in solidifying a base structure to grow from.
So, yes HS doesn't teach you very many important things, but that's why all relevant jobs require higher education. A GED or less will get you exactly what you've got - a part-time job and a mediocre lifestyle. You've not done anything by dropping out but perhaps hindered your own progress.
I strongly disagree with what you chose to do, but I wish you the best.

You made a lot of claims but I don't see the logic backing up these thoughts. How was it narrow-minded? How are they excuses? Why is wrong to be selfish in this situation? How is whether or not I have my GED yet a measurement of whether or not dropping out was the right thing to do for me? And plenty more shit you didn't address.

I had no reason to stay and only reasons to leave. They're not excuses.

I have no obligation to tax payers to finish high school. Nobody does. And their money didn't go to waste. It simply just stopped funding my high school education and went into other people's education.

I went to school until eleventh grade. I have all the grounds to grow. One of the reasons I left was because I wasn't learning anything. It was hindering my growth.

High school isn't "higher" education. College is. And a GED is the legal equivalent of a diploma, so no, it won't destine you to flip burgers or live in a box in some alley. This is pandering to the status quo and fear-mongering to what you don't know. Absolutely every person I've met with a GED is living a perfectly fine life. I personally know several people who got their GED and went on to get doctorate degrees. It doesn't mean it will fuck up your life.

I'm not hindering my progress. School was hindering my progress. I'm fucking skyrocketing with success, like I said. I'm exactly where I want to be.

I have a part time job voluntarily and my lifestyle isn't mediocre. Did you read the OP?

"'I'm glad to say I feel extremely liberated. Anxiety is a rarity to me and I'm learning something worthwhile about every single day. I'm a totally different and better person, and I can attribute the most of that to dropping out. It was one of the best decisions I've ever made and I will never regret it. It led me onto a pathway I would never thought imaginable."

 

[Rank]

Do you regret dropping out of high school??

 

[Professor]

"Skyrocketing with success"
*has a voluntary part-time job*

I backed up my statements with a lot of information that circles itself, you just managed to see only what you wanted to see. I'm not going to repeat my original statements. If you feel happy with what you did, more power to you. Don't tell me my opinion is wrong and I won't tell you yours is wrong either.

 

[Cann!bal]

Do you regret dropping out of high school??

I talked about this in the OP.

"It was one of the best decisions I've ever made and I will never regret it."

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"Skyrocketing with success"
*has a voluntary part-time job*

I backed up my statements with a lot of information that circles itself, you just managed to see only what you wanted to see. I'm not going to repeat my original statements. If you feel happy with what you did, more power to you. Don't tell me my opinion is wrong and I won't tell you yours is wrong either.

Yeah, I am. I'm where I want to be, I'm more happy than ever and I'm enjoying my life. How isn't that skyrocketing with success?

I have a voluntary part job, what about it?

If you did then point it out. I don't see anything to support your thoughts.

Your opinion is wrong and it's a shitty unsubstantiated one. You won't even back your statements up, so don't expect me to respect shit.