Sentence examples for forgoing school from inspiring English sources

Forgoing school, Ganjaman started his music career working at El Rocha, a studio he built with his father and brothers (all musicians), where he produced dozens of underground bands of all genres.

The Burtons, who live in Stowe, Vt., aren't the only parents who are allowing their offspring to forgo school for a family trip.

Forced to forgo school as a teenager to help his family survive, Mr. Kamkwamba scavenged materials to build a windmill that took electricity and clean water to his village for the first time.

But because they forgo school for work, they can't read, and so view books as no different from anything else they've sold — like boxes of tissues or bags of oranges.

Ms. Collier, 21, then a college sophomore, picked Option 2. But she decided that to meet the program's requirements of multiple drug tests a week in Phoenix, she would have to forgo school an hour away.

But before all this globetrotting, Shamaris was English girl who had forgone school to work as a young sales associate at Brown's and later at Ralph Lauren's first London store.

He might have left it at that, but at 16, inspired by Peter Thiel's 20 Under 20 program — it invites teenagers to forgo school and work instead on a big idea in exchange for a $100,000 stipend — Khan decided that he wasn't too young to become a serious entrepreneur.

Older siblings (6 14 years) often had to forgo school in order to provide childcare.

Children who forgo school in order to work are deprived of skills and future opportunities, reinforcing cycles of poverty.

There was a time when Enelesi was willing to forgo school so that she could work in the farms.

But Stromme Foundation West Africa has implemented a strategy to reduce the number of children like Assan who have had to forgo school in order to work.