(That's "no high school", for those of you who've never looked me up in Wikipedia.)
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky
PS: I used to be shyer about this, but I'm now sufficiently convinced that Something Is Rotten In Education that I'm willing to go around presenting myself as a case in point. Certainly going through life Outside the System is extremely difficult and inconvenient, but the high yields if you can do so are an important fact about the overall health of the system. I'm not advocating that everyone should drop out before high school, but they might be able to take the data into account in other decisions, like how much effort to invest in high grades in college versus extracollegiate self-education.