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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. Source: Internet

After dropping out of the Fisk School at age eleven, Armstrong joined a quartet of boys who sang in the streets for money. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

After dropping out in the ninth grade, he returned to the Turtle Mountain Reservation to live with his father. Source: Internet

After dropping out of school at 16, Lawrence worked in a laundromat and a printing plant. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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