Why do i feel like i want to drop out of school??? (im in the 9th grade)?

School is getting overwhelming for me, and i have a great back-up plan. Also im already very intelligent.







Famous High School Dropouts

Part Two



Shaun Kerry, M.D.

Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology



鈥?H.G. Wells.......best-selling British author (dropped out to help family earn income; later returned and went on to college)



鈥?Jim Clark........self-made billionaire American businessman; founder of "Netscape"; first Internet billionaire (17, U.S. Navy)



鈥?Jimmy Dean..........singer-songwriter-actor; self-made multimillionaire American businessman; founder of the "Jimmy Dean



Foods" brand sausage business (16, U.S. Merchant Marines; 18, U.S. Air Force)



鈥?Andrew Jackson......7th U.S. President; face is pictured on the U.S. twenty dollar bill (13, U.S. Continental Army; orphaned at 14; little formal education; home schooling/life experience; studied law in his late teens and became a lawyer)



鈥?Leon Uris..........best-selling American author (Exodus, etc.) (17, U.S. Marines)



鈥?Walter L. Smith.....former president of Florida A%26amp;M University (equivalency diploma, at age 23)



鈥?W. Clement Stone....self-made multimillionaire (some sources indicate billionaire) American businessman-author; founder of "Success" magazine (elementary school dropout; later attended high-school night courses and then some college)



鈥?Jack London.......best-selling American author (dropped out at 14 to work; later gained admission to the University of California; left after one semester)



鈥?Arthur Ernest Morgan....American flood-control engineer; college president-author; appointed by President Roosevelt to be director of the Tennessee Valley Authority public works project (left high school after three years; later attended the University of Colorado for six weeks)



鈥?Ray Charles.........singer-pianist; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee



鈥?Cher......Oscar-winning actress-singer



鈥?Maurice Chevalier.... Oscar-winning actor-singer; French Legion of Honor inductee/Medal recipient (note: rank bestowed in 1938







鈥?Ellen Burnstyn......Oscar-winning actress



鈥?Raymond Burr.......actor



鈥?Sammy Cahn.......... Oscar-winning American songwriter-composer



鈥?Michael Caine.......Oscar-winning actor; knighted (United Kingdom: Sir Michael Caine)



鈥?Glen Campbell.......country music star



鈥?Daniel Gilbert......Harvard University psychology professor (equivalency diploma)



鈥?Dizzy Gillespie.....musician-composer (received honorary diploma from high school he attended)



鈥?Patrick Henry.......American Revolutionary War era politician; Virginia's first governor; famous quote: "Give me liberty, or give me death!" (little formal education; home schooling/life experience; later studied on his own and earned a law degree)



鈥?Peter Jennings......Canadian-born American television journalist; evening news anchorman



鈥?Ansel Adams.........American wilderness photographer; photography book author; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient



鈥?Julie Andrews.......Oscar-winning actress-singer



鈥?Louis Armstrong.....singer-musician



鈥?Brooke Astor........wealthy American socialite-philanthropist-author; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient



鈥?Pearl Bailey........singer-actress; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient



鈥?Lucille Ball........actress-comedienne-producer; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient



鈥?Bill Bartman........self-made billionaire American businessman



鈥?Count Basie.........bandleader-pianist



鈥?Jack Benny.......... comedian-actor-violinist



鈥?Humphrey Bogart.....Oscar-winning actor



鈥?Peter Bogdanovich....Oscar-nominated American film director-screenwriter (The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, Mask, etc.)



鈥?Whoopie Goldberg....Oscar-winning actress-comedienne



鈥?Benny Goodman.....bandleader-clarinetist



鈥?Lew Grade.........British film/TV producer (TV: The Avengers, The Saint, Secret Agent, The Prisoner, The Muppet Show, etc.); knighted (United Kingdom: Sir Lew Grade)



鈥?Philip Emeagwali....supercomputer scientist; one of the pioneers of the Internet (high-IQ high-school dropout; left school in native Nigeria due to war conditions and lack of tuition money; continued to study on his own and earned an equivalency diploma; later won a scholarship to Oregon College of Education in the United States; transferred after one year to Oregon State University)



鈥?Danny Thomas........actor-producer-humanitaria鈥?(actor: Make Room for Daddy/The Danny Thomas Show; co-producer: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Andy Griffith Show, etc.); Congressional Gold Medal recipient



鈥?Peter Ustinov.......Oscar-winning actor



鈥?Hiram Stevens.......American-born engineering inventor; knighted (United Kingdom: Sir Hiram StWhy do i feel like i want to drop out of school??? (im in the 9th grade)?
im a 11th grader and i feel the exact same way, but if you do drop out idk you can find a way to start your own business. Lots of people dropped out and got tons of money by owning there busisness, but if not then you might want to stay in school