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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
I always find it interesting that people mention outliers when it comes to high school dropouts. The overwhelming majority of them work in the most menial of jobs and live in abject poverty. There are probably more liberal arts majors living in homeless shelters than there are millionaire high school dropouts.
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Originally Posted by Poppinjay
If stats were kept on this kind of thing, I doubt I would be surprised. An almost totality of studies point to the fact that college graduates do better than high school graduates, and high school graduates do much better than drop outs. The Economist just had the yearly study.
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I admit I was speaking about the exception, not the rule. I was just trying to point out that a failure to succeed in the traditional school system does not automatically mean a failure in life.
What I'm referring to is also more of an aspect of the boomer generation, and not quite of any generation that followed.
Yes, times have changed, but today's high-school dropout still has a number of options for an "alternative" education.
The mainstream system is broken. Still.
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And as an anecdote: my high-school average was probably a C+...maybe a C. I was an A student in business school at the college level and a B+ student at the undergraduate university level in the liberal arts (this would have likely been a higher average if I hadn't suffered a traumatic experience in my first year).
I hated high school. I failed grade 12 math three times, and preceding that only had a C average in math, and yet managed to receive A's in business mathematics and several accounting courses at the college level.