Dropping out

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Dropping out means leaving a group for either practical reasons, necessities or disillusionment with the system from which the individual in question leaves. It is used in various contexts, including:

• Most commonly it refers to a student quitting school before he or she graduates. It cannot always be ascertained that a student has dropped out, as he or she may stop attending without terminating enrollment. Reasons are varied and may include: to find work, avoid bullying, family emergency, poor grades, unexpected pregnancy, bad environment, lack of freedom, and boredom from lack of lessons relevant to the world of work.The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts^[1] by Civic Enterprises explores reasons students leave school without graduating.
• In the 1960s "dropping out" was used to mean withdrawing from established society, especially because of disillusion with conventional values. It is a term commonly associated with the 1960s counterculture and with hippies and communes. See Turn on, tune in, drop out.
• The academic, Robin Farquharson, wrote a book; entitled Drop Out!, about his own experiences dropping out of university life after he saw Timothy Leary's "Turn on..." statement on television.
• In clinical trials participants may withdraw from the study, for example, due to adverse effects. This is also referred to as dropping out.

Contents 1 Notable drop outs 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Notable drop outs

High School

• Christopher Blizzard
• Albert Einstein, Luitpold Gymnasium
• Michael Enright (broadcaster)
• Bobby Fischer, Erasmus Hall High School
• Marvin Hewitt (criminal)
• Beland Honderich
• Hitomi Kanehara
• Juan Carlos Onetti
• Dave Thomas (American businessman)
• Joseph Vollero (criminal)
• Wright brothers

University

• Michael Dell,University of Texas at Austin
• Bill Gates, Harvard University
• Steve Jobs, Reed College
• Ted Turner, Brown University (expelled?)
• Kanye West, Chicago State University

Society

• Henry David Thoreau, 2 years spent at Walden Pond

[edit] See also

• Dropout age

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Essay by Ran Prieur
• Dropout Intervention and Language Minority Youth - From the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics.
• The Dropout Cure: Students Seeing Their Own Future
• Report: Many big city graduation rates below 50%
• Research report by Michael Ben-Avie, PhD, Impact Analysis and Strategies Group

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