should i drop out?

[MA]

Ive missed alot of school durring the course of this year and now ive totally dug myself into a hole. WHen i go to school and do my homework i can get good grades but i just dont want to 95% of the time. Now I cant even make myself go to school most days and i think my parents understand, so i can miss school. When ever i do decide to come back I get all these judgemental questions from bitches and meatheads about what i do when i dont go to school and why my parents do care and what ever else, and im just sick of it. I dont go to school simply becasue i hate it. I have terrible teachers, the majority of the people suck, and I dont learn anything useful. When Im not at school i do worry about my grades and all of the things ill have to make up when i get back and that makes me feel even worse. I want to drop out next year but i'm afraid of what will happen to me if i give up but i dont know what other choice i have.

[hmm]

Maybe it would make more sense to think of staying in school as "giving up"... because when you choose to spend your days in the hell-hole of compulsory schooling, you're giving up on a chance to spend your time doing more interesting (and educational!) things.

[M]

I'm considering dropping out as well. I'm nearing the end of my last year, but there's a LOT of stuff unfinished, and if I don't do that(projects, book reports, etc.), it doesn't matter how well I do/did on standardised tests and exams, I simply won't get the fucking diploma. And I definitely can't motivate myself to do all that work. What's the point? Whenever I have a day on which I will face a teacher of a subject for which I still have stuff due, I come up with some lame-ass excuse, or I don't go to school at all.

I've always had some sort of beef with school, but have previously not been able to identify the school itself as the problem. When I finished elementary, I had to make a choice between two schools: one which was quite far away from the village I lived in, but it could be done by bicycle. Either that or one much farther away, so we'd have to move out. I had a friend in my old elementary, who was a year lower than me, with whom I still have contact, who has always had this great attitude of fucking up as much of indoctrination camp as possible. He didn't do as well in the final test, so he got sent to the high school for dumb proles, while I went for the "medium" level(well, I tried the "high" level for a few months because my dumbass teacher recommended it, but that soon became too hard).

Looking back, I wish I'd completely fucked up my last elementary year, so I'd have to do it again, with my friend, and then pass it together and end up in the scummy Christian high school that he's attending and fucking up now. That would have been fun.

So anyway, I started to get really pissed off with having to constantly turn in stuff two years ago. In the third year of high school(now in my fifth and last), I often failed to do so, although I did end up turning everything in and passing. Then in the fourth, I had enough of it and I started procastrinating on a lot of things, or simply not doing them at all. They eventually passed me when I promised I'd work on that shit in this year. Now, I still have stuff pending from the last year.

Last year, I also started skipping school. It probably doesn't mean much to most people here, but it was really "enlightening" to find out that even though I wasn't attending school, I wasn't going to hell, becoming a bum or anything. My parents did eventually find out and they were pissed off. Well, actually, just "disappointed". Fucking emotional blackmail.

This year, I'm even less motivated. I just don't want to be bothered with doing all that old shit. I consider myself neither lazy nor otherwise "wrong", it just doesn't add anything to my education(if I thought like that from the beginning, I'd've dropped out way earlier... damn, all the time wasted on all those fucking maths, physics, chemistry, economics, biology... it pisses me off every time I think about it!).

So, I'm about to drop out. It's not going to be easy to break it to my parents, but it's going to have to happen. Otherwise they'll have to hear it from an angry letter about me still needing to turn in overdue work. For anyone considering it, here's some advice:

-You don't owe them jack shit. You don't owe the teachers your homework. Also, you do not owe your parents for feeding you and shit. If you did, then maybe they should have made you sign a contract like: "In exchange for getting fed, dressed and entertained, I will finish school and become a model zombie to the best of my ability." But they didn't. You DO NOT owe it to them to finish your high school. They'll have to either live with that, or kick you out.

-You're not a dumbass, a criminal or a bum. You are fully within your rights to drop out(at least, that is the case here, from 16 or older you don't even need parental permission, technically!).

-You/your parents are footing the bill for your imprisonment in the indoctrination camp. You can return busted merchandise to stores. And you can "return" fucked up indoctrination camps to the government!

[Scott]

i gotta say: dropping out is great. you really learn a lot about yourself and the habits you were taught (laziness, for instance) in skool. and the "real world" is nice, everyone is so willing to help each other.