dropping-out
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dropping out
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After secondary school Saddam studied at an Iraqi law school for three years, dropping out in 1957 at the age of 20 to join the revolutionary pan-Arab Ba'ath Party, of which his uncle was a supporter.
After dropping out of the Fisk School at age eleven, Armstrong joined a quartet of boys who sang in the streets for money.
Alan Lomax, then 24, took him under his wing and helped raise money for his legal expenses, dropping out of graduate school to do so.
After dropping out in the ninth grade, he returned to the Turtle Mountain Reservation to live with his father.
After dropping out of school at 16, Lawrence worked in a laundromat and a printing plant.
Also, evidence from earlier epidemics suggests that girls are at particular risk of dropping out and not returning to school in the aftermath of the pandemic.