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There always seems to be a loop hole in the education system.  There were a few guys in the lower grade who were failing classes in both semesters and were probaly going to become super seniors. The didn't care though, they said as soon as they turned 16, they would drop out take the GED at that age, and then be able to do two years of community college and later maybe if possible go to a university. Originally I thought you had to be 18 to get your GED but he said it depended on which state you were in. The idea of basically graduating highschool at a younger age than 16 with only a slight amount if work made me first give the kid credit for thinking it all out. Something may be wrong with his plan but I'm not going to be bothered to look for ways out of highschool with your education intact.

I have a nephew that opted to get his GED at seventeen so that he could spend a year working a full-time job and save enough for college without going in debt.  I don't know why he was in such a hurry, though, when he could have just enrolled in college a year later...

Opportunities come and go. I was working on a job for some smaller companies and ghostwriting articles here and there. Got recommended to an even bigger company who wanted me working with them. Unfortunately, the workload would've been too much alongside classes. I did play with the idea of dropping out for a year to get my foot into the door, but decided it was too risky and declined. 

It really depends on your situation. If you think you can go far with it, go for it. But if it's something trivial like working a dead-end job at a chain grocer or something like that, you're better off staying in school.

I graduated early, but if you asked me, I would've gotten out of school and into the job market a whole lot sooner if I could. Not because I didn't enjoy high-school, I actually loved learning even though those years were rough on me, but I needed to help my mom out will bills as soon as I was able. I'm not the only one who had to pull more than their weight when I was young and I can understand other kids pushing to grow up faster than expected. 

I tried to graduate a year early since I had more than enough credits, but the principal said I'd have to get my parents approval and we weren't exactly on the best of terms at the time.

Yeah.  My mother's mother skipped a grade, and I guess she always told my mom how terrible it was being younger than everyone else.

Also, my parents were big on not being a tall poppy.  

I have a cousin that was skipped ahead in middle school and that was her complaint, too, so her parents held her back the next year.  XD

Knew one guy in my class who had skipped a grade, got to 12th grade and flunked. Which wouldn’t have been too bad, since now he was just where he would have been had he not skipped a grade.

That year flunked again and then dropped out altogether.

Talk about having a head start and then choking at the finish line.

XD  Doing a one-eighty like that can give you a real complex or, perhaps, whiplash.

:/ Sucks. I dunno, there should probably be exceptions for certain cases with that...

It would have given me more free time, I guess.  I had held a full-time job, though, starting at the age of fifteen.  In hindsight, it was probably better in the long run, since I wasn't exactly the most gregarious person back then.

Shit. You can take it at 16? Wish I'd thought of that. Last couple years of highschool felt like such a waste.

My uncle had to wait until he was eighteen, so I think this is probably something relatively new.