Here is a question relating to when you went to school

I'm sure there were kids I went to elementary school with who had to repeat a grade, but that was half a century ago, and I can't recall them clearly.

I quit high school the day after my sixteenth birthday - about a month and a half after I started Tenth Grade.

I've made my share of poor decisions, but I've never regretted dropping out. I got my GED with very little study a few years later, spent nearly a decade in the military and did pretty well there, and then got a degree when I was in my early thirties. I'm reasonably content with how my life has turned out, although I'm sure I would have gone down a radically different path if I'd stayed in school and followed the normal route for bright kids and gone on to college immediately after. But the fact is that there wasn't the sort of supportive network around me when I was a kid that meant college was ever a real possibility.

The one thing I find rather embarrassing to admit now is the true reason I decided to drop out. I had no problems with the academic side or the social aspects of HS, but gym was an enormous problem for me. Back then, there wasn't any alternative to the traditional, sweaty, very physical PE. From the time I was a little kid, I've hated exercise for exercise's sake, and I've never seen the point of working with a bunch of other guys to chase a ball of some sort around a field or court. I was also hideously shy as a kid, and the mandatory communal showers after PE were a nightmare for me.

Since I knew I'd never get the PE credits necessary for me to graduate, I saw no point in hanging around and jumping through all the academic hoops.