How many hours of my life did I spend on Coach Clements’ history class watching The Blue And The Gray and being quizzed on historic baseball jersey numbers? Hours that I’ll never get back.
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It seems like I run into high school dropouts all the time in Silicon Valley and HOW COME NOBODY TOLD ME THAT WAS AN OPTION
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IMO instead of banning under-18-year-olds from even taking the GED, we should give them a cash bonus for testing out of HS earlyhttps://twitter.com/gojomo/status/557734563099983873 …
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This would have substantially improved the quality of my life
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Give them 70% of the avg yearly cost for gov school for each year they shave off. I’d get behind that so hard.
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in many cases that'd be even more than the $10k number I spitballed!
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and so much cheaper
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Another day, another 24 hours no one has asked me to solve a quadratic equation...
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high school dropout (twice over actually..)
"Dropped out" of college ~50% through also 
Once I had a software salary to support my family it didn't make sense to keep attending.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The fact that there is a huge number of universities (including and perhaps especially the "elite" ones) that will take you without requiring you to have ever gone to or completed high school is one of the best kept secrets of the current education system.
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Haven't been in any kind of school setting since I was 17. 33 now and convinced that I missed nothing.
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Feeling proud here
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Can’t say how MUCH I’ve learnt, achieved, and how many great people met. It’s been incredible.
No regrets.
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This is a bad heuristic.
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