Dropping out

"College dropout" redirects here. For the album by Kanye West, see The College Dropout.

Dropping out means leaving a group for practical reasons, necessities, or disillusionment with the system from which the individual in question leaves.

Most commonly, dropping out refers to a student quitting school before he or she graduates or avoiding entering a University. It cannot always be ascertained that a student has dropped out, as he or she may stop attending without terminating enrollment. It is estimated 1.2 million students annually dropout of high school in the United States, where high school graduation rates rank 19th in the world.^[1] Reasons are varied and may include: to find work, avoid bullying, family emergency, poor grades, depression and other mental illness, 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^[2] by Civic Enterprises explores reasons students leave school without graduating. The consequences of dropping out of school can have long-term economic and social repercussions. Students who drop out of school in the United States are more likely to be unemployed, homeless, receiving welfare and incarcerated.^[3] A four-year study in San Francisco found that 94 percent of young murder victims were high school dropouts.^[4]

In the 1960s, "dropping out" was used to mean withdrawing from established society, especially because of disillusionment 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.

In clinical trials, participants may withdraw from the study, for example, due to adverse effects. This is also referred to as dropping out.

Dropout recovery

A dropout recovery initiative is any community, government, non-profit or business program in which students who have previously left school are sought out for the purpose of re-enrollment. In the United States, such initiatives are often focused on former high school students who are still young enough to have their educations publicly subsidized, generally those 22 years of age and younger. ^[5]

Dropout recovery programs can be initiated in traditional "brick-and-mortar" institutions of learning, in community centers or online.

Notable dropouts

High school

• The Notorious B.I.G.^[6]
• Arthur Shawcross^[7]
• Albert Einstein, Luitpold Gymnasium^[8]
• Michael Enright (broadcaster)^[9]
• Bobby Fischer, Erasmus Hall High School^[10]
• Marvin Hewitt^[11]
• Beland Honderich^[12]
• Duke Kahanamoku, Kamehameha Schools^[13]
• Hitomi Kanehara^[14]
• Abdel Aziz al-Muqrin^[15]
• Juan Carlos Onetti^[16]
• Nas^[17]
• Eminem^[18]
• Wright brothers^[19]
• Walt Disney^[20]
• Richard Branson^[8]
• Dave Thomas (American businessman)^[21]
• David H. Murdock^[22]
• Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. ^[23]
• Gurbaksh Chahal^[24]
• Tupac Shakur^[25]
• Kurt Cobain^[26]
• Danny Rolling^[27]
• Teddy Pendergrass^[28]
• James Earl Ray^[29]
• Eazy-E^[30]
• Marvin Gaye^[31]
• Jay-Z^[32]
• Chester Turner^[33]
• Frank Lloyd Wright^[34]
• Billie Joe Armstrong^[35]

University

• Woody Allen, New York University^[36]
• Andrew Black, University of Exeter^[37]
• Michael Dell, University of Texas at Austin^[38]
• Arash Ferdowsi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology^[39]
• Bill Gates, Harvard University^[40]
• David Geffen,^[41] Santa Monica City College, Brooklyn College, University of Texas at Austin
• John Glenn, Muskingum University^[41]
• Steve Jobs, Reed College^[20][42]
• Jack Kerouac, Columbia University,^[43]
• Kanye West, Chicago State University^[44]
• Alicia Keys, Columbia University^[45]
• James Dean, UCLA^[46]
• John Steinbeck, Stanford University^[47]
• Sylvester Stallone, University of Miami^[48]
• Ted Turner, Brown University^[41]
• William Faulkner, University of Mississippi^[49]
• Anthony Bourdain, Vassar College ^[50]
• Mark Zuckerberg, Harvard University^[41]

Doctorates

• Robin Farquharson^[51][52]

See also

• School leaving age
• High school dropouts in the United States
• List of dropouts in the United States

References

External links

• Dropout Intervention and Language Minority Youth – From the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics.
• The Dropout Cure: Students Seeing Their Own Future
• Economic Effects of Dropping out of School
• Big Cities Battle Dismal Graduation Rates
• National Drop Out Prevention Center
• Stanford University News - "You've got to find what you love," Jobs says