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.
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Notable drop outs
High School
- Arthur Shawcross
- Christopher Blizzard
- Albert Einstein, Luitpold Gymnasium
- Michael Enright (broadcaster)
- Bobby Fischer, Erasmus Hall High School
- Marvin Hewitt (Physics professor)
- Beland Honderich
- Hitomi Kanehara
- Juan Carlos Onetti
- Eminem
- Stanley Perron
- Joseph Vollero (criminal)
- Wright Brothers
- Walt Disney
- Richard Branson
- Dave Thomas
- David Murdoch
- Gurbaksh Chahal
- Tupac Shakur
- Kurt Cobain
- Danny Rolling
- Teddy Pendergrass
- James Earl Ray
- Eazy-E
- Marvin Gaye
- William Faulkner
- Jay-Z
- Chuck Schuldiner
University
- Michael Dell, University of Texas at Austin
- Bill Gates, Harvard University
- Steve Jobs, Reed College
- Kanye West, Chicago State University
- Alicia Keys, Columbia University
- Jon McClure, University of Sheffield
- Zach Galifianakis, North Carolina State University
- James Dean, UCLA
- Adam Hunter, York University
- Daniela Piccinin, York University
- Marsha Lierman, Financial Peace University
See also
References
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
- Resources for anyone who has ever considered leaving high school
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