After his favorite uncle's violent death, Tom Mackee watches his family implode, quits school, and turns his back on music and everyone who matters, and while he is in no shape to mend what is broken, he fears that no one else is, either.
David Gilmour traces his unconventional decision to let his son, Jesse, drop out of high school as long as they watched three movies of David's choosing together each week. David discusses how, as the films got them talking about Jesse's interior life, Jesse would come to make a decision that surprised even his father.
In an attempt to learn to read, a twenty-five-year-old dropout sneaks back into high school, returning to the teen world of football practice, dating, and school lunch.
Ken Talbot gets to know his real father in the worst of circumstances when he travels to Florida after flunking out of college in Detroit and arrives just in time for a hurricane.
Upset and angry that her mother has separated from her drug addict father and may divorce him, Nicki spends her early teen years dropping in and out of school and trying to find a life for herself.
Discusses some of the reasons for and consequences of not finishing high school, including poor study skills, learning disabilities, family problems, and violence.
After practically burning down his last school, Spencer Pendleton wants to keep out of trouble at Greenfield Middle but between attacks from the school bully and being recruited by the mischievous tribe of dropouts hiding in the building, Spencer seems headed for permanent detention.
"Dropping Out of School: This series provides readers with information on topics of current interest. Focusing on important social issues, each anthology examines its subject in a variety of ways, from personal accounts to factual articles"--.
