Here is my attempt to convince you all that dropping out of school is a bad idea and could be one that you regret for a long time to come, maybe even for the rest of your lives.

Firstly you need to understand your reasons for wanting to drop out of school, if your being bullied or harassed then moving schools could be an option. If you find the work too hard or even too easy then speak with your teacher or tutor and see if some arrangements can be made. If it is because your failing or falling behind in classes ask someone who is doing well if they would be able to help you out, you could also see if your school has any kind of tutoring programme running. If it is for a reason that i have not mentioned then home tutoring could also be used as a last resort.

You need to know that by dropping out of school completely you are putting your future in great jeopardy.

Apart from having no qualifications you will always be known by your locals as the one that dropped out of school, and as the one that is likely to fail. If you want to ruin your life and any future careers at least leave school with some qualifications first, just in-case later on in life you decide you were a fool and actually want to make something of your life, at least if you left school with grades and qualifications you have something to fall back on.

Whatever you do, do not be foolish like me, i decided to give up on school at around age 14, i was  not being bullied, i did not find the work hard (i was actually predicted B and C grades for my exams), but i did have personal problems that ate at my soul, i found school boring.

I spent more of my school week bunking off than i did in an actual class room, by year 9/10 i probably only spent around 5% of the school week in a class room.

It was not until later, around 17 years of age when i found a reason to be someone, i found something i enjoyed, i wanted to be more than just a statistic, i wanted to make a difference, unfortunately leaving school with no qualifications and leaving it too late to attend a free college course, my new plans were going to be hard to fulfill.

It was hard to get any kind of job, many jobs that i applied for were either taken by someone that had left school with some kind of grades our to get to an interview stage you needed a minimum of 3 C grade GCSEs or higher. My only option was to volunteer at my local youth centre, it was only 2 hours a week and unpaid but it is where i would have to start.

I was determined not to spend my life on benefits and determined still to make a difference. I spent from the age of 17 to the age of just over 20 working up and building job experience before i could get my first proper job, the job that 3 years down the line i still have.

Its not been an impossible job, i still have not achieved what i wanted to achieve, but i did manage to get this site up and running, which does help people, just not on the scale that i have hoped.

If i had stayed on the last year and half of school then there is a great chance that i could of left school and went straight into a decent paying job, instead i spent many nights alone (while my mates worked and could afford to go out places and i could not) and wasted almost 3 years of my life getting myself the experience needed for someone to take my CV with any kind of respect, Its been hard, ive been determined but who knows just how much closer i would have been to my dream if i had not have dropped out of school?

Be smart, stay in school, learn everything while its free, generally speaking if you want to learn anything after you leave school you will have to pay for it, to be able to pay for it you will have to juggle both college and a job. Not easy, I wouldnt even want to try it as just a job is hard enough!