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Originally Posted by Exoparadapsyphobia  Yes, I would quit school; because I am! Well, this isn't exactly the most accurate description of what I'm doing. I would describe it as home schooling myself.
I'm missing 2 semesters worth of credits due to a lack of interest and other personal issues (mostly medical), and I'm tired of wasting 6 hours a day 5 days a week learning little about nothing in a faulty educational system and being asked to convince grossly under qualified teachers I think just like they do. Don't get me wrong, this isn't an announcement that I've completely given up on the pursuit of knowledge that's appliable to the real world, I'm just continuing that journey down an alternative and more convenient road.
Though I'm sure some of the more presumptuous and narrow minded of you will stapel exactly that kind of negative definition on it. Social stigma and ignorance about forms of education outside of the classroom are so difficult for some people to overcome. 
Forgive me if I seem unjustifiably hostile, but I get a lot of stink eyes and maddeningly pitiful looks when I tell someone I'm not in school. |
I know how you feel and can't believe I'm saying this I'm homeschooled too.
But as to quit school probably because what I want my career to be I
don't have to finish high school. But my parents would freak, so no.
Also the homeschool program I'm in is where you do the school work and go
to the school itself to take the tests. And yeah I get the same looks when
people find out I'm home schooled, but fun to brag that I'm self taught in
school. But the real reason I'm not in regular school is because of the
uniforms, which are not as cute as the japanese ones, that and every week
it seems like one of the schools in this area either have shootings or
lockdowns or the gangs, not to mention the teacher cuts, sooner or
later everyone here will be home schooled within a 100 mile radius of me.