How do I tell my parents?
"Mom, dad, I want to drop out of school."
That is depending on how old you are. If you're dropping out of college then you're an adult and it's your own choice. If you want to drop out of HS, then you're probably going to have more problems.
"Mom, dad, I am an idiot." <- if you're in highschool
Many of my friends dropped out after highschool. Now, a decade later, most of them are working at store counters. There just isn't that much room in this society for people with anything less than a undergrad degree.
You really ought to be asking yourself: do I want to suck for the rest of my life?, because if you drop out, that's your most likely destiny. You'll be working for peanuts on menial jobs that nobody else wants, with no way out.
Agreed,... No point in just telling you're dropping out of school. Tell them what you are going to do, that actually will also prevent you from going to school
Why do you want to drop out?
"mom, dad, i want to go to ventriloquist school".
that should make them give up any hope of fixing your future. then you can do what you want.
Don't do it, I did and I really regret it, seriously, stay in school.
>>5
I have no aspirations to be anything more than a wage worker. My parents want me to go into science and I go along with it because it makes them happy. I should be honest; we're pretty wealthy right now. My parents send me to a private, prestegious gender-segregated Catholic school. They think I enjoy the expensive education they're buying for me, even when I've expressed several times that I'd rather be in a public highscool. I'm tired of a lot of the pomp surrounding the intelligentsia and I just don't want to be a part of that anymore. I'm, frankly, very unhappy.
I figured that if I drop out I could end up getting basic employment of some sort and rent a little place of my own. I think I'd be happy that way. And yes, I know the lot of you will quip that I'm just an idiot who has no idea what it's like to be poor, and being poor won't make me happy. I understand that. But I don't want to keep doing what I'm doing now without a viable out.
If anything I might like to be a mother or wife someday. The only thing that I feel some sense of accomplishment from is helping and taking care of other people. But that isn't a respectable position for women in this society, either.
>>5
In that case, why don´t you ask your parents again to go to a public highschool? . Be clear about your feelings with them, and tell them that if not,you may want to leave school. I think they will understand. Many times we imagine situations that end up being much easier than we thought :)
At the public school,you may feel better and find new people with different ideas and backgrounds. So maybe the problem is just staying away from the rich world at least for a while. When you finish, you will be able to do whatever you want!.
And if you like helping and taking care of people, you may also find a suitable career for you like nursing or psychology, or many others.
Good luck!! :)
>>8
You don't need any aspirations right now.
This isn't about right now. This is about keeping options open in the future. If you don't graduate from high school, you will always remain a wage worker, no matter how much you might wish to be something else.
Having said that, I'm curious why you're unhappy with highschool.
Because his parents want him to go into science. He's clearly not a scientist.
>>12
He's going to drop out of highschool because his parents want him to become a scientist?
That's retarded.
Finish the highschool and either study something else at university or take a break. There's no good reason to drop highschool short of your family dying of starvation -- like in Africa.
Focus your education on things you actually enjoy. Explain to your parents that you aren't interested in the science subjects. I strongly urge you to finish your education, even if after that you just go straight into menial work. You never know how you will feel when you are actually working that minimum wage job, so it's better to have something to fall back on.
>The only thing that I feel some sense of accomplishment from is helping and taking care of other people. But that isn't a respectable position for women in this society
What the hell... So female doctors/nurses/policewomen don't exist?!? Why are you worried so much about what a 'respectable' position is? What even is a respectable position? A trophy housewife? While a doctor who can earn lots of money and be an integral part of society is just some kind of manly non-woman?
You rich son of a bitch!
I wish I had the opportunity that you did!
Fuck this shit!
Drop out! I
don't care, You can still run to mommy and daddy for help.
I fucking hate it when rich people complain.
>>1,8
I went to a public high school and it was my own personal hell.
But I stuck with it. It's only a few years, anyway.
If I could have traded places with you and lived in a world of opportunity with a bunch of pricks, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
Because public school is full of pricks, too.
> The only thing that I feel some sense of accomplishment from is helping and taking care of other people
Study to be a registered nurse or personal support worker. Your parents might not approve, but it's a compromise between what you want and what they feel is best for you. Not that you should have to compromise.
>>15
Money provides opportunity and security, but not happiness.
I suggest trying to have a serious talk with your parents about going to a public highschool instead. I switched to a public highschool for my last two years of highschool, and I'm very glad I did. It was just as full of pricks as public highschool, but they were less annoying kinds of pricks.
The work was so much simpler than in my catholic highschool that I was able to get great results on all my final exams without even trying, plus i got to anjoy going to highschool instead of hating it. I think the great results i acheived outweighed having to graduate from a public instead of private highschool. There's certainly nothing wrong with doing it.
I don't think dropping out of highschool is a good idea. It doesn't reduce your opportunities for the future [there are plenty of other ways to get into just about any university degree]. The thing is, it's easy to get more kinds of jobs, and easier and faster to get into more kinds of courses, if you finished highschool. You may think you know what you want to do right now and that it would be pointless to bother finishing highschool, but the fact is that most people at yor age, and even a lot older than you, end up wanting something completely different than what they previously expected. That includes the ones who are very very good at assessing themselves and what will or won't make them happy. So no matter how sure you are you just want a wage job or whatever, acting on that thought will put you at a huge risk of having at least a slightly more difficult time getting what you want in the future.
I agree it sounds alot like your motivation comes from your environment; assuming you're in America I can't entirely support >>18, since the reason those tests are easier is because the US state schooling system is appaling, but definitely ask to move to a mixed gender school. Segregated schools are known for rotten social structures for a reason.
While university is ultimately your choice, definitely finish HS or you will seriously regret it. Even if you go on to do utterly unskilled work or even become a housewife the maths and so on you learn make general living considerably easier; people who say they never use what they learned back in maths class say so because they didn't pay attention and so don't recognise places where it simplifies things. Filling out tax returns and just dealing with money in general, something you always have to do, is considerably easier (and you will intuitively spot any mistakes much better) with some HS level maths. Knowing how to figure out percentage change quickly is extremely useful, and a huge amount of stuff has underlying quadratic behaviour. Even if you never do a quadratic again once you leave the building, the mental structures it leaves mean you can automatically understand things containing them much easier without even realising it.
>>1 enjoy working at mcdonalds for the rest of your life. go smoke some cones and OD on something so you dont drag down the economy by taking welfare payments from my tax. pussy
You don't want to drop school, you want to change schools (does not necessarily need to be public, but different), and develop different perspectives than the ones your parents seem to have in store for you.
Actually,... It's even possible that you're parents will be very open minded about you not being a scientis, just as long as you develop some credible personal project.
And there are many ways for someone to have a job taking care of others, be it a woman or a man.
Summarizing all that to a "I want to drop out of school" is a bit lazy, and won't give you any satisfaction, in the long run...
I dropped out of school when I was 16. Now I'm 21 and empty garbage bins at an office. Don't do it OP, because once you do there is no future for you without a diploma.
Alternatively, OP could get his GED and enroll in a college.
GED's are not accepted at all schools, or can cause complications. Just go to high school. It's good life experience.
if the OP is really a rich female, id say there isnt much to honestly worry about. keep your parents happy and leech off them until theyre dead and you can collect. if youre beautiful, grab yourself a rich man as young as you can and do the same.
I dropped out of High School at 16 as well.
While I don't consider my choice as highly as I do now at 20, and looking back, I feel that I could have certainly been a little bit quicker about things, rather then shuffling my feet for a whole year before I got my GED, and then dragging it out another half-year before enrolling in a College. Be wary not to fall into the same loop - You have to go out and figure everything out on your own, set the gears into motion on your own; You won't have somebody holding your hand and guiding through it all like you've had through all of your schooling up to that point.
Furthermore, do please be aware that GEDs are a rather negative mark on your record. Certainly better then a High School graduate that scraped by at the very bottom, but if you're getting along in school with Bs, I honestly would recommend you stay - And even if you pass the GED with flying colors, a large portion of the more prestigious schools will simply flat out refuse you, unless you transfer into them after proving your worth at another place (Personally, my plan from the start was Two years at Community College, then a transfer to something nicer. Can't really afford four straight years paying out the ass for tuiton either way.)
And even if you have no problems with suddenly being cast out on your own to take control of your education or being at something of a disadvantage in the hunt for a university, I wouldn't say that simply disliking High School is enough of a reason to justify such a drastic change - But if you get the feeling that High School is genuinely stifling you or holding you back (And particularly if your grades are suffering as a result of it - Better an early GED then a High School diploma with straight Ds), it might be worth looking into - Just remember, you can't really go back once you've done it.
If the above is true for you, give it afew weeks of hard thought. It's a viable alternative, but it's by no means an easy way out - Perhaps a shortcut, but this short and hard path isn't worth it unless you find something alarmingly wrong with the long cakewalk of High School - and if you come out feeling that it's the best choice for you, have a serious talk with your parents, explaining the situation in detail, and the plans you've set up for when/if things get set into motion.
"Mom, Dad, I want to work menial blue collar jobs for the rest of my life. Thanks for the effort you put in providing me with a better future with options, but it won't be necessary. Take that money and go on a cruise instead, or maybe use it to adopt a child who isn't an ungrateful fucktard."
its not about what you know, but who you know.
i have a liberal arts degree from a pretty respectable state uni, and right now im working retail and pretty miserable. i have no connections. none of my friends are powerful enough to get me entry level jobs considering i have no experience. now, im fairly certain i couldve gotten the same job i have without even a high school degree, but having the piece of paper gives me hope that i wont be doing this forever. without it id put myself in a fucking noose eventually im sure.
as far as the OP is concerned if youre rich, take solace in the fact that no matter what you do youre at an advantage by default.
Sounds like you're going to have to volunteer to do unpaid experience type stuff to get on your CV. It happens quite a lot that somebody comes out of education with good results but during that time they didn't get a part-time job in the industry, so don't have the "experience", even though companies could blatantly teach a top level graduate.
I dropped out of high school and got my GED, but I did go through four years of it but I screwed around so much that by my senior year, I only had credits to be in the 10th grade. It was good for the experience, so I'd recommend just going. But getting your GED isn't bad either. I'm in college right now.
How much of a difference in difficulty is there between tests in public and private high schools in the US?
Are liberal arts degrees sought after in the US? We don't really have them here in the UK.
Liberal arts is the most useless degree you can get/waste time on.
>>33 thank god...otherwise I would of joined the "drop out" train.
Finish High school and tell your parents you want to be an artist.
>>38 False statement.
Corrected: Depends on the student.
>>1
Don't leave school. Expensive Catholic schools are good places to meet people (including potential well off husbands and people who can facilitate employment) The children of mothers with good education do better, same thing with connections.
If you drop off now and go to some state school, you will find it very difficult to get all of those advantages and the same will happen to your children.
Take responsibility for your own life. If you want to drop out then do it by your own means, but don't expect or insinuate any support from your parents if thats what you want by telling them so.
OP, you said that "helping others" isn't acceptable for women?
Are you Really that ignorant? That's what Psychology careers ARE. It's possibly also why Psychology is Dominated by females.
Sheesh.
Oh, by the way, anons. Stay out of my Psychology. Those womens belong to ME.