Many girls who complete elementary school can't afford high school, which isn't free.
He won't graduate high school, won't get married, won't have kids of his own.
However, even if you didn't finish high school or have other factors you can't change, you can still challenge your brain to preserve mental function, Fiocco says.
Over 1 million students don't finish high school each year -- nearly one in three.
"It's really yet to be determined, " said Amy Riker, director of high-school equivalency testing at ETS. An estimated 40 million American adults don't have high-school diplomas, and in 2011, about 723, 000 people took at least part of the GED test.
Yet as the smiling faces of girls in white dresses I hadn't seen since high school stared at me from my computer screen, I couldn't help but feel I was suddenly looking at the path I hadn't taken.
Some are singles doing things they haven't done since high school, this time without parental guidance.
And yet, as many as a quarter of our students aren't even finishing high school.
Participants who haven't graduated from high school must be pursuing a diploma or working on a GED.
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While he wasn't enrolled in high school, she said, he had been taking classes to earn his GED.
Currently, 30% of immigrants haven't earned a high school diploma or the equivalent.
And if you don't have a high school diploma, 15.5 percent.
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But people also qualify who are older than 17, some of whom didn't graduate from high school but possess the high-school equivalency credential known as the GED.
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If there's one thing that correlates with unemployment and pay -- I mean if you have a bachelor's degree, your pay is likely to be twice that as someone who doesn't have a high school degree.
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Some ten bidders looked at it before IBM grabbed the firm in January, paying an undisclosed sum, changing the company's name to IBM Entity Analytics and naming Jonas, 41, who didn't graduate from high school or college, to the lofty title of IBMDistinguished Engineer.
It wasn't so long ago that many high school kids didn't have to worry about sex.
The 6-foot-4, 250-pound defensive end wasn't highly recruited coming out of high school and didn't receive an invitation to the NFL combine following a standout college at Buffalo either.
He didn't head for the high school where he could have been tackled.
Of course, the education race doesn't end with a high school diploma.
The kid who sold lemonade on the street corner and the teenager who sold t-shirts at high school football games to fund his surfing exploits, Woodman became the master of the quick buck.
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This type of argument wouldn't pass muster in a high school debate class.
Who wouldn't like to return to high school, if only for a few days, knowing what we know now?
Bringing your friends home to show off a new Ham radio or your great-great-great grandfather's rebel flag probably won't boost your popularity in high school.
The website includes background information on city officials, noting that most of those directly involved in the investigation didn't go to the same high school as the suspects.
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Also, nearly 60% of U.S. adults who never completed high school don't use the Internet.
"You can't neglect the fact that some high school girls quite willingly do this, " he says.
The superintendent for Cascade High School didn't respond to requests for comment.
Turns out high school isn't really all that tough to figure out after all -- so long as you can pass pre-calc.
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