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The word "dropout" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a student who leaves school without a diploma or degree. For example: "Mike was a high school dropout and never went back to get his diploma."
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dropout
noun
Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course
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In countries where sanitary products are inaccessible or unaffordable, menstruation can mean missed school for girls (UNICEF estimates 10% of African girls don't attend school during their periods) and an increased dropout rate, missed work for women and repeated vaginal infections because of unsanitary menstrual products.
All its provocations mean that Yeezus will never be as beloved by as many people as, say, The College Dropout.
Northern Nigeria has some of the highest unemployment and school dropout rates in the world, despite the country being the eight largest oil exporter.
A raft of allegations have been made since former Pc Mark Kennedy was unmasked in 2011 as an undercover officer who spied on environmental protesters as long-haired dropout Mark "Flash" Stone.A Met spokesman said: "There is a thorough review and live investigation into allegations of inappropriate behaviour and practices involving historic undercover deployments.
It attracted every kind of draft dodger, druggie and dropout from West Germany.
She acknowledged that there was a high dropout rate from sixth forms, but said that was because pupils were not given the right advice.
– Monitoring dropout rates, employability and loan repayment outcomes for students on different courses.
SIXTEEN years ago, National Review magazine devoted its cover to Rush Limbaugh the "leader of the opposition", as writer James Bowman called him.To a surprising number of conservatives there is a solemn appropriateness about [Ronald] Reagan's passing the torch to the 42-year-old former disc jockey and college dropout.
To increase the skill levels of its future workforce, America needs to confront a large and growing dropout problem.
The origins of this dropout problem have yet to be fully investigated.
The dropout rate in the public school system is about 40% (over the final four years), and even those who graduate are often unprepared for even a two-year college course: 60-70% habitually fail the reading test, even more the maths test.
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