Why are people so judgmental to high school dropouts?

Question

Not to be mean, but people learn at different rates and some people don't have the high enough IQ to pass anyway, so why stay in or even go for that matter?

Why do some people even have grudges against dropouts? They are people with feelings just like everyone else. Our society seems to be getting even more mean and hostile for the stupidest reasons.

Answer 1

Because you just asked a question about how to congratulate someone that just dropped out! That's stupid! Dropping out is a declaration that you do not care about your education, and in that, you dont care if you are intelligent, well read, use proper vocabulary, or have the ability to do math. Most jobs require a diploma as a base for hiring. Dropping out is a declaration that you dont care about anything and you are too ignorant to do something so basic to help your life. The few people I knew that dropped out (for good- not to go get a GED) never finished HS or got a GED, and now they have useless jobs, horrid vocabularies, and sometimes need help reading. Besides, when you are 14-18, what else is there to do but prepare for a future? People who enjoy being dropouts are losers and end up working at Mc Donalds, wondering why their lives turned to crap. Think I'm being sarcastic? I know people like that, so dont tell me it doesn't happen.

Answer 2

I'm a high school drop-out. I left school a few months before I was going to graduate. It was the worst mistake that I have ever made in my entire life, and yes, I take full responsibility for my action. Although I'm not trying to victimize myself, or justify my situation, I was just really confused about my life, and at the time, I thought I was making a great decision. What used to hurt me was that people refused to leave the past behind them, and they would tell me that they expected it from me. And I had almost a year sober at this time. To tell you the truth, I had a horrible homelife growing up, and I had nobody to give me praise and encouagement, which led to an under-developed self-esteem. So you know what? I probably didn't deserve a chance. Sometimes I wish that I could have had all of that as a child, rather than allowing myself to slowly develop self-esteem, discipline, and motivation as a young adult. It makes me mad when people judge me for my mistake. I've tried to get back into 3 different high schools, but I can't get in because I dropped out. I've worked at least 40 hours a week for the past two years (I'm 20 now), so it's not like I'm a bum. I'm married, and my husband and I have been together since we were 16. We have a really nice apartment that we''ve been living in for over 2 years. We both make decent money, and we're waiting to have children until after I'm done with college (which, by the way, I'm starting in the spring). So I don't really see how I can be considered one of the "loser" drop-outs, because I've paid for my mistake, and I'm living a great life with an awesome future.

Answer 3

High school is almost a necessity these days to obtain a decent paying job. People look down on dropouts because it shows that they gave up and never did anything to fix the situation. It's one thing to drop out as a teenager but as an adult you can go back or get your GED, It's a matter of bettering yourself for your own reasons. Education is important and now a days not having one can really hold you back.

Answer 4

The way I look at it, you've already been in school for 9-12 years. Why quit now?! Just because someone has a low IQ doesn't mean they can't graduate high school. You can't get anywhere in the world without an education, and drop-outs are looked at as quitters (and rightfully so, in my opinion). Yes, people learn at different rates, but schools are set up at a certain pace so that slow and fast learners can get everything they can out of their lessons. Plus, drop-outs usually end up trying to live off of the system because they can't get a decent enough job to support themselves. Why should my hard-earned money go to someone who got bored with school and decided to quit? Drop-outs deserve the reputation they have.

Answer 5

why quit on life, and yourself so soon in life? The lack of respect for yourself and others is a good starting point. A dropout had the same expectations as everyone else. Society has even gone to such lengths as to provide special accommodation for people that choose to be lazy, or otherwise, and give them a lesser workload in school, or a special classroom with more one on one. Basically there is no reason to drop out, it's just one excuse after another. If you quit now, you will spend most of the rest of your life quitting........and that is the mindset, and the way most people see it. Get your *** back in school, and finish it for yourself. You will regret it if you don't.....
Does that help?
Besides lazy at a young age leads to where most of society is currently at....lazy. Have you noticed many things are not passed on from generation to generation anymore. People don't clean their own mess up, or their own house, they walk their dog and leave the crap on the sidewalk, they don't do their own yardwork,.....I could go on and on. Society is getting lazier all the time, and it is because technology has made things too easy for you. Do you know how to grow your own food, kill and clean your own meat, knit and sew your own clothes, build your own house,??? could you survive out in the middle of nowhere with no computer, and cell phone? heck, skip the middle of nowhere. Most people today couldn't survive their current lives without a computer and cell phone.
And you don't wanna finish the simple task of high school. Give me a break.

Answer 6

Last time I checked, you didn't need a certain IQ to graduate high school.
High school is a joke it truly isn't difficult and if you dropout or don't graduate within the alloted time you lack some serious discipline or dedication.

I don't think people treat dropouts harshly I think that people who drop out of high school do for the wrong reasons. They either don't have enough moxy to make it or have a drug problem.
People need to stop playing the victim.

Answer 7

With a reasonable amount of effort it would require a severe learning disability to not be capable of graduating high school. The standards are not that high. It does require some effort though. The great majority of dropouts are simply because they are lazy, not because they are truly incapable of doing the work just because the refuse to try.

Answer 8

Because it is only High School, not quantum physics. It is easily passable to someone who puts forth the effort. Society sees a dropout as a lazy person who didn't want to or couldn't hack it. Why would they ever get hired by any company? It is a major attribute to someone's personality, and obviously lousy work ethic.

Just stay in school!

Answer 9

I think they look down on them because they see it as not trying or just giving up instead of trying to see that people have different learning styles or even different skills. It is highly possible for a drop out to start their own business and not be a leach to society.I think most people think that their taxes will go towards supporting a loser, and not seeing the bigger picture. My friend was a drop out and started a profitable computer building company, and Bill Gates dropped out of high school......so they just don't need to beleive the hype

Answer 10

It is because the way we have crafted our society forces everybody to go through high school (and now even college) to make a living. It just reflects the stupidity of man. It really isn't man that is wrong though, it is societies, which is a product of man. Societies bring out the worst in man, strike conflicts and produce wars. Yet man cannot live in isolation, therefore we must accept the greater evil with the greater good.