i'm a high school drop out.
and it's anyone's opinion as to whether dropping out is a good idea or not.
but dropping out doesn't make you a bad student. when i was in school i ranked in the top five of my class, my SAT scores scored me a merit scholarship, i got into a lot of good schools, i was 2nd term class president, a NHS inductee, 3rd term president of the arts academy, captain of the soccer and ultimate frisbee teams, topping states and JO's in racing... and all sorts of other shit.
i dropped out for a lot of reasons. and one of them was because i loathe the public school system and would rather give up all the time i had spent there to drop out than spend another day listening to their bullshit. because to me a diploma is a piece of paper, a piece of paper that doesn't mean very much to me coming from the school i went to where anyone with a few brain cells left could pass along or sneak by in the loops on the shitty public school system.
I got my GED, and I'm still going to college.
-Lauren