Unless you have a very specific reason to drop out, don't do it. This isn't a time to take chances for you. It can end up a lot worse than you can fathom.

if you need a reason to tank through, the collegiate atmosphere is way healthier than any high school's
tank through the bullshit competition in high school and get into the best college you can
if you take your education seriously, it's easy to surround yourself around people that also love what they're studying, and people generally care about one another

it's good 4 u

Depending on where you live and what the deadlines are, you may have the option of dropping your courses and re-taking them in the fall semester. If you are over 18, you can also consider adult high schools and take your needed courses at your own pace.

Due to mental health issues, I chose to drop my courses for the remainder of the semester, and I am taking them next year along with other courses I need to graduate. For myself however, this wasn't a major issues as I was planning to go back for an extra year to take those courses. (I am in a specialized program, so I have to take extra courses, but in Ontario, you can opt to take a 5th year of high school, so I did that to spread out my courses.)

School is definitely worth it no matter the situation if you want to have a good life past it.

people see school only to get jobs
finish it to get more knowledge
school is the most important part of your life imo
dont worry about working right now, you will have 40 years to do it..

i flunked my final yr of hs because i had no mental energy left to put towards it. school system is less black and white here tho, as it's split into levels of qualification.
i'm not enjoying life but i wouldn't be enjoying it any more at uni/pursuing a prestigious career or whatever. i'm just not wired with any kind of academic drive.

Don't take the easy way out. You're so close to being finished. Stick with it, you won't regret it.

honestly, if its like bullying or mental stress, a environmental change could be a good thing, try maybe switching schools or trying to find study groups, hang out at the local library and school library and try to find people that want to succeed as well and surround yourself with people like that, it took me till my sophomore year to find out just how satisfying talking to intelligent people is.

Tl;dr try new things, surround yourself with smart people, prove most importantly to yourself that youre the most hard working, and do your best.

P.S. honestly, it doesnt even matter if youre smart, if you do the work and bomb every test, you can still get a C in most classes

you got this bud ^ ^

where did you even get this idea

I'm not sure what it's like in your state but it's likely possible you can just dropout and start the process of taking a test for a GED, which is literally just an equivalent to a high school diploma and in employers eyes really doesn't make a difference which one you have. Really sounds like majority of posts in the thread are geared toward scaring you into finishing school because of the dreaded 'dropout job experience'.

I dropped out of school at 17 and got my GED and I also know of another person around here who did the same so that they could start college a year early, really it isn't a bad option to consider at all. If it's allowed at your age in your state, this is seriously just a consideration on how much time you want to spend to achieve the same thing.

dmv woes :(

I dropped out, but I went through some intelligence tests and still got accepted by my college of choice, so I guess it worked for me. Wouldn't recommend it tho.

its redundant at this point but if you drop out of highschool youre just making it harder for yourself later on in life. just fucking finish, its really not that hard to show up and do a few homework assignments and PS it helps a ton if you try to talk to your teachers like human beings, they most likely only talk to a few other teachers throughout the day and probably dont interact with many students. i skipped 25% of my senior year and barely did any work but i passed with good grades because when i was in school, i got good test grades, bullshitted with teachers about their lives, and was generally nice to everyone. your school may be different but still, if youre a good kid and make the slightest effort, teachers give you the benefit of the doubt. its not hard.

I dropped out of highschool in my senior year. Went and got my GED (which is a stupid easy test) and got a year of college before I turned 18. Shit was expensive so I joined the military to help pay for college. I now have a paying job and an easy way to get educated. If you have an Accosiate or Bachelor's degree with a good GPA that's what people look at, not your GED.

You need a plan if you drop out, don't do it because you just feel like it. It will make your life harder/make people look down on you, but you can overcome that with hard work.

i'm not going to a traditional college

I do have a reason to drop out, that reason being anxiety and depression (almost 100% caused by school and the school atmosphere)

I do have a plan, the plan is to get the GED, keep working for a few years, and then go to culinary school. I'm not just doing it because i feel like it

its nearly unbearable

see above

therapy?

i have talked to a therapist weekly for over 2 years

high school is fukin pointless but u gotta do it fam

i can tell u that dropping out and working a restaraunt job then going back home alone will make you far more lonely and depressed than school no matter how many friends you have, better to get the diploma and have your options be much bigger

Dropping out of high school isn't the worst thing in the world although it is easy as fuck to finish. If you really do hate it but are smart, you should be able to minimize your time in that environment if you really feel it's that destructive. Here's some of my thoughts from reading through this thread:

If you've been going to a therapist weekly for two years and you're in this spot, I have to think they haven't been that effective. I would personally search out a different one and maybe see a psychiatrist instead. I think this is really big. I get that there is some area of comfort going back to the same place with the person that knowns you very well vs starting over with a new therapist but if they aren't helping you, you're just torching money.

If you actually do drop out, do not treat it like a vacation. You have an interest in cooking and if that's what you want your career to be, that's awesome however you're not gonna get there working your current line job forever. You'll obviously have to go to culinary school and if dropping out of school doesn't resolve issues that might be present in your future then you're really not doing yourself any favors by dropping out. Also what year are you in high school?

You really have to plan and research. Don't drop out and take it as you go. This will probably create more anxiety + depression due to the uncertainty of your future. I would do some research on the culinary schools you'd think about attending and what your chances are of getting in without finishing high school. What are you chances with not graduating vs GED vs graduating. Remember that with depression, lethargy comes hand in hand. If you don't make a plan and make sure to stick with it, you'll pretty much bound to fail.

I'm not a therapist or an advisor or any shit but these are the things that jumped out at me

I feel you. I seriously considered dropping out of school to start living on the move, but I figured I can give it another year and I did. I don't regret it to be honest, it wasn't a lot of effort and I still got to travel twice a month on average, leaving early after school on Friday and skipping Monday or even Tuesday if I could afford it, arriving back around 5am.
My advice is, if you can still do what you like after school, a year or two is nothing and it may be well worth it. Or not, but you never know. I'm sure I could do my job without it for less money, but let's say I lose me hands, do you still think I can get a job without a high school diploma? Even if I can do my job without it makes me the last choice, putting me at the back of the queue, leaving me to die in the gutter.

I dropped out of high school when I was 15 years old, and didn't do my homeschool work so I never graduated.

I'm 18 now and working on my GED. If you aren't in school or haven't gotten a high school equivalency you can't even apply for any drivers licenses until you're 19 in Alabama.

All around 2/10 experience would not recommend