Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.
I went to George Washington High School for six months before my 16th birthday, when I could legally quit. That was an even worse experience than the Catholic schools. I mean, they were still teaching fractions. But mostly, I played hooky.
I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.
When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.
I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.
I only finished first grade.
At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.
At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I stopped.
When you quit school at an early age, I think you have a lifelong need to show the world - and maybe yourself - that you're really smart after all.
I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.
I got expelled from high school my freshman year.
