Lessons Learned: My Journey as a High School Dropout

I was happy until I wasn’t.

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“Tomorrow, when you go to school, I want you to turn your books in and quit.”

I sat in stunned silence by my mother’s words. Why would a parent want their child not to graduate high school? Sure, I had been skipping just about every class for months and was on target to fail every subject, but dropping…