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I tried as hard as I could not to go to school, beginning with second grade. In retrospect I maybe wish I had done an advanced degree, but avoiding junior high

• undoneAgain 7y ago
  The truth is, there was no open path for you, and from your perspective, you saw that the doors were closed and the gates were locked. I see this with every interview. Smirks, eye rolls, laughs. It wouldn't have mattered what you tried. You were held down, ruined by a denial of access, systemic in nature.
• shantly 7y ago
  A US kid who hates school but has above-average general intelligence (so, not the prodigies who teach themselves Attic Greek at age 6 and go to Harvard at 12, just normal 1-in-50 or 1-in-25 smart kids) can probably bail on high school when they're 16, get into a community college (test scores ought to do it), take all the courses for an associate's degree, then snag a GED when eligible and officially pick up the degree. Doing all that plus having a part-time job is almost certainly a smaller time commitment than high school is and you'll get basically the same education or somewhat better, except you'll already have a degree and a ton of transferable credit toward a bachelor's at age 18.