For a time townspeople abandoned the village and school.

By the age of 17, Lavoe abandoned school and sang with a ten-piece band.

In 1919 he abandoned school and decided to study mechanical engineering in the US.

Many of the children begin working at age 10 and abandon school.

At age 15, Redding abandoned school to help his family financially.

He abandoned school at a young age, sensing that his destiny lay not in the academic world, but on the oceans.

He abandoned school the following May and went back west to stay with his aunt and uncle in Seattle.

But he abandoned school and in 1965 moved to New York City, where he began his life's work.

Dr Sithanen comes from a modest background, due to poverty he was forced to abandon school to work at an early age.

Hannah is a 12-year-old girl who had to abandon school to work as a maid in a hotel.