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Fellow students and friends will probably express dismay at this turn of events, and may even band together to help raise money, helping their friend to stay in school and graduate. Teachers and mentor figures may try to advocate for the Tragic Dropout at their workplace, find them a working scholarship, or help them continue studying part-time.

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Fellow students and friends will probably express dismay at this turn of events, and may even band together to help raise money, helping their friend to stay in school and graduate. Teachers and mentor figures may try to advocate for the Tragic Dropout at their workplace, find them a working scholarship, or help them continue studying part-time.
part-time. It may cross over with StudentDebtPlot, either because the Tragic Dropout is ''still'' stuck with the debts despite having no degree, or because they had to take on predatory loans to avoid dropping out.
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* ''Manga/MariaNoDanzai'': Maria addresses [[spoiler:Yuda]] as a "former student" of the school, implying that either he changed to a different school or dropped out entirely before working as a store clerk. After [[spoiler:[[BullyBrutality all the abuse he suffered]] at the hands of [[GangOfBullies Okaya and his gang]] during middle school]], both options are quite understandable.

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* ''Manga/MariaNoDanzai'': Maria addresses [[spoiler:Yuda]] as a "former student" of the school, implying that either school; he changed to a different school or dropped out entirely following [[spoiler:Kiritaka's death and locked himself up in his room to hide from [[GangOfBullies Okaya's gang]]]] before working as a store clerk. After [[spoiler:[[BullyBrutality all the abuse he suffered]] suffered at the hands of [[GangOfBullies Okaya and his gang]] during middle school]], both options are their hands]]]], it's quite understandable.

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* ''Manga/MariaNoDanzai'': Maria addresses [[spoiler:Yuda]] as a "former student" of the school, implying that either he changed to a different school or dropped out entirely before working as a store clerk. After [[spoiler:[[BullyBrutality all the abuse he suffered]] at the hands of [[GangOfBullies Okaya and his gang]] during middle school]], both options are quite understandable.



* In ''Literature/Overlord2012'', Satoru Suzuki (Ainz's pre-Isekai identity) comes from a dystopian future where all forms of education have been abolished to the point that only the wealthy and elite can afford to go and graduating high school means that you are set for life. The people in charge did this to keep common folk ignorant and unwilling to have any form of ideas. Satoru was only able to reach elementary school level education, and when his parents died he was forced to drop out of middle school because he had no other way to pay his tuition.

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* In ''Literature/Overlord2012'', Satoru Suzuki (Ainz's pre-Isekai identity) comes from a dystopian future where all forms of education have been abolished become inaccessible to the point that only the wealthy and elite can afford to go and graduating high school means that you are set for life. The people in charge did this to keep common folk ignorant and unwilling to have any form of ideas. Satoru was only able to reach elementary school level education, and when his parents died he was forced to drop out of middle school because he had no other way to pay his tuition.

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* In ''Literature/Overlord2012'', Satoru Suzuki (Ainz's pre-Isekai identity) comes from a dystopian future where all forms of education have been abolished to the point that only the wealthy and elite can afford to go and graduating high school means that you are set for life. The people in charge did this to keep common folk ignorant and unwilling to have any form of ideas. Satoru was only able to reach elementary school level education, and when his parents died he was forced to drop out of middle school because he had no other way to pay his tuition.
* In Creator/{{CLAMP}}'s ''Manga/TokyoBabylon'', this is what happens to main character Subaru Sumeragi after his [[HalfIdenticalTwins sister Hokuto]] is [[spoiler: brutally murdered]] by [[FetishizedAbuser Seishirou]], who has been [[spoiler: revealed as the Sakurazukamori.]] This is especially tragic as Subaru not only wanted very much to graduate high school and go on to college but also that he lost his beloved sister to the person he finally realized he was in love with. Subaru quits school so he can become stronger and eventually murder the Sakurazukamori. This is continued in ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'' to [[FromBadToWorse devastating results]].
** In ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'' once Fuuma [[spoiler: becomes the Kamui for the Dragons of Earth]], he stops going to school as well. Satsuki too never attends school once the whole Final Battle begins - then again, she ''is'' a genius.
* In ''Manga/SilverSpoon'', Ichiro Komaba's family farm is piling up debt, and he hopes to either make it through high school before returning to work there to salvage it or make it as a pro baseball player in order to make enough money to pay back his family's loans. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, his classmates don't find out about his deal to drop out and start working to pay back the loans unless he keeps winning all his baseball games until he's already lost and his family's farm has declared bankruptcy.]]



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** In ''Manga/TokyoBabylon'', this is what happens to main character Subaru Sumeragi after his [[HalfIdenticalTwins sister Hokuto]] is [[spoiler: brutally murdered]] by [[FetishizedAbuser Seishirou]], who has been [[spoiler: revealed as the Sakurazukamori.]] This is especially tragic as Subaru not only wanted very much to graduate high school and go on to college but also that he lost his beloved sister to the person he finally realized he was in love with. Subaru quits school so he can become stronger and eventually murder the Sakurazukamori. This is continued in ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'' to [[FromBadToWorse devastating results]].
** In ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'' once Fuuma [[spoiler: becomes the Kamui for the Dragons of Earth]], he stops going to school as well. Satsuki too never attends school once the whole Final Battle begins - then again, she ''is'' a genius.



* In ''Literature/Overlord2012'', Satoru Suzuki (Ainz's pre-Isekai identity) comes from a dystopian future where all forms of education have been abolished to the point that only the wealthy and elite can afford to go and graduating high school means that you are set for life. The people in charge did this to keep common folk ignorant and unwilling to have any form of ideas. Satoru was only able to reach elementary school level education, and when his parents died he was forced to drop out of middle school because he had no other way to pay his tuition.



* In ''Manga/SilverSpoon'', Ichiro Komaba's family farm is piling up debt, and he hopes to either make it through high school before returning to work there to salvage it or make it as a pro baseball player in order to make enough money to pay back his family's loans. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, his classmates don't find out about his deal to drop out and start working to pay back the loans unless he keeps winning all his baseball games until he's already lost and his family's farm has declared bankruptcy.]]



* Fuuko in ''Manga/UndeadUnluck'' dropped out of middle school half-way due to the danger and isolation Unluck, an ability that activates based on physical contact that can potentially kill someone, brought her, all which were not helped having accidentally killed her own parents with said ability when she got it at the age of 8. She ultimately ended up a shut-in from that point onward and become so depressed that the only thing that kept her killing herself was wanting to see her favorite manga series to the end.



* Fuuko in ''Manga/UndeadUnluck'' dropped out of middle school half-way due to the danger and isolation Unluck, an ability that activates based on physical contact that can potentially kill someone, brought her, all which were not helped having accidentally killed her own parents with said ability when she got it at the age of 8. She ultimately ended up a shut-in from that point onward and become so depressed that the only thing that kept her killing herself was wanting to see her favorite manga series to the end.

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