Did Tyson Fury really drop out of school at age 10?

[Mao]

I just saw this on Reddit:

'TYSON FURY
tyson_Fury
·
Oct 16, 2012
Also I left school wen I was 10! And hav married my 3 cousin.called my kids after country's and for the record I love dags!bred to fight pit'

Also I left school wen I was 10! And hav married my 3 cousin.called my kids after country's and for the record I love dags!bred to fight pit
— TYSON FURY  [MENTION=6183]tyson[/MENTION]_Fury) October 16, 2012
 

That's year 5 or 6. Not shocked since he sounds confused & dumb most of the time. But how do you drop out of school when you're from a stable family and didn't get kicked out?

[Bunkerboy]

Gypsies live a different type of life.

[boliodogs]

It really doesn't matter if he did since at the young age of 30 he is worth 60 million bucks or close to it and he is the heavyweight champion of the world. That is better than any education and Fury is well spoken and intelligent.

[Mao]

It really doesn't matter if he did since at the young age of 30 he is worth 60 million bucks or close to it and he is the heavyweight champion of the world. That is better than any education and Fury is well spoken and intelligent.

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He hasn't even earned half of that in his whole career combined. And with all the hands in his pocket - he's only worth a fraction of that.

Anyway, that's beside the point. I'm just curious because formal education is compulsory to a certain age and I don't know how he was able to drop out at age 10.

Also, Fury being intelligent and well spoken would've to relative based on the level of intellect of the audience. For someone who's also half-baked & borderline illiterate like him - he might sound well spoken & intelligent. However, for anyone who's educated, he sounds like a perpetual idiot. Decent boxer tho.

[coghaugen]

Very few travellers go to school my friend.

[Vinnykin]

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He hasn't even earned half of that in his whole career combined. And with all the hands in his pocket - he's only worth a fraction of that.

Anyway, that's beside the point. I'm just curious because formal education is compulsory to a certain age and I don't know how he was able to drop out at age 10.

Also, Fury being intelligent and well spoken would've to relative based on the level of intellect of the audience. For someone who's also half-baked & borderline illiterate like him - he might sound well spoken & intelligent. However, for anyone who's educated, he sounds like a perpetual idiot. Decent boxer tho.

It is compulsory nowadays for your children to go to school, parents can even be fined for frequent truency.

However, Fury grew up 30 to 20 years ago before those laws came in, and travellers never went to school at all back then and many still don't.... it's just not prosecuted as its not in the public interest to enforce it on people who live outside the system.

Fury might not be well-spoken or intellectual to highly-educated people, but he is certainly wise to the world and how it works, and seems to be pretty switched on to things, which can go a long way. Life experience and hard work can take you far.

[W1LL]

Another irrational thread devoted to hating on the greatest rags-to-riches/success/comeback story in the history of the sport! Tyson Fury haters really are like a gang of Karens on here, no logic, just pure envy and self hatred.

[Citizen Koba]

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He hasn't even earned half of that in his whole career combined. And with all the hands in his pocket - he's only worth a fraction of that.

Anyway, that's beside the point. I'm just curious because formal education is compulsory to a certain age and I don't know how he was able to drop out at age 10.

Also, Fury being intelligent and well spoken would've to relative based on the level of intellect of the audience. For someone who's also half-baked & borderline illiterate like him - he might sound well spoken & intelligent. However, for anyone who's educated, he sounds like a perpetual idiot. Decent boxer tho.

There's a variety of rules and laws which allow for home education in the UK (given serious thought to it myself FWIW) or for children to be removed or homeschooled if the parents believe their children's cultural or religeous needs aren't being met. Alternatively many parents of travellers exclude their children on the grounds that schools aren't adequately protecting them from bullying or are exposing 'em to prejudice... I believe the real reason may more often be a cultural thing however. It's fairly normal in traveller communities to get their children into working fairly young, usually helping out the father with however he makes his living and schooling is seen as a largely pointless diversion.

Govt report on schooling in travellers.

https://publications.parliament.uk/p...iles/36008.htm

https://www.tes.com/news/one-five-gypsy-roma-and-traveller-children-never-gets-far-secondary

Homeschooling:

https://www.theschoolrun.com/home-education-legislation-england

https://www.gov.uk/home-education

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/nov/03/get-to-be-free-rise-in-home-schooling

[GodLike]

Gypsies are well known in the uk to home school their kids, There was a gypsie kid who came to my school when i was about 10 ironically he was only there for a few weeks then left, he also had little a boxing glove gold chain on, i was one of the few people who became friends with him. that's pretty crazy now i look back, and probably sounds like some bs i just made up but i swear on my mothers life thas a true story. I wonder if he went on to become a boxer or even knew the fury family.

[removed]

He dropped out in high school like most gypsies. It's all in his book.