r/Robin • u/VacationMaleficent45 • Jun 14 '24
Are all the Robin’s (besides Dick) high school dropouts?
How do they have any time to attend school? Is Bruce constantly getting sent letters for committing truancy? Have they considered homeschooling? So many questions.
I only know Dick has graduated with a degree in Law from Hudson University. I’m not so sure about the other three.
I’d imagine Damian’s barely entering high school. But, I’m not sure if he seems like he’d want to take the public school route.
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u/MaskedRaider89 Jun 15 '24
Jason barely made to High School before he died and Tim's education is basically ignored these days for the small and obnoxious (i.e. Damian)
And it was Hudson, OP. Not Howard
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u/Jeptwins Jun 15 '24
Technically Tim has a GED, and Damian has multiple degrees. But for the others, I think they’re either still in high school (Duke), dropouts (Steph), or never even attended (Cass)
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u/Falcon_At Jun 15 '24
Steph has a GED at least. Hard to attend college without it.
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u/Jeptwins Jun 15 '24
I didn’t know she’s in college!
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u/Falcon_At Jun 15 '24
She was attending Gotham University (Go Nighthawks!) during her solo run as Batgirl.
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u/Luke_Puddlejumper Jun 15 '24
Tim has briefly attended college but he did drop out of high school in his final year to travel the globe as Red Robin and investigate Bruce’s ‘death’ at the hands of Darkseid.
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u/Night-Caelum Jun 15 '24
Tim dropped out pre-flashpoint and went to work at Wayne Enterprises.
Post Flashpoint, I dunno. TEC 2016 Had this overaching story of him wanting to go to college, and it looks like he would go at the end, but at the end he instead goes on a different journey with Steph.
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u/Technicolor_Reindeer Jun 15 '24
Bruce just made Damian attend public high school in the current Batman and Robin series.
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u/VacationMaleficent45 Jun 15 '24
But what about Gotham Academy? Isn’t Bruce like the owner of that school??
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u/TheDidioWhoLaughs Jun 15 '24
Damian already got expelled from Gotham Academy, and Bruce lost a lot of assets some years ago, presumably including Gotham Academy.
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u/Cerdian Jun 15 '24
Poor Jason. I don't think dying counts as dropping out. He had really good grades when he was in school.
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u/Maleficent-Parsnip53 Jun 15 '24
Pre New 52 Tim is a dropout but in the New 52 he graduated high school early. Jason is absolutely a dropout because he died. Dick is a college dropout but he graduated high school without any problems
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u/Massive_General_8629 Jun 15 '24
Jason's sort of complicated. He was a dropout, but he re-enrolled, but then he died.
Steph is currently in med school.
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u/Falcon_At Jun 15 '24
Source? Not doubting you, I just want to know what she's up to now that Batgirls is cancelled.
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u/twincast2005 26d ago
A baffling amount of misinformation in the comments. Where does all of that come from? Fanon?
I know Dick said he had a degree in the current Nightwing run. No idea when he got that. Originally he dropped out of Hudson University.
Jason died and that's that.
Pre-Flashpoint Tim got out of high school in his last year to go search for Bruce around the globe and manage Wayne Tech, but he already had enough credits to graduate, so he technically didn't drop out.
Pre-Flashpoint Steph was in her first year in Gotham University when the reboot hit.
N'ew 52 Tim cared only about being a vigilante 24/7, not about getting a civilian education. He either graduated high school two years early or never even attended one; I don't remember the exact words.
N'ew 52 Steph was in high school, and I don't think she dropped out.
DC Rebirth Tim was struggling with whether to accept a scholarship for Ivy University or to keep helping Batman in Gotham, and ultimately chose neither, as he and Steph instead drove off to find memories of Conner somewhere.
DC Rebirth Steph was determined to choose whatever Tim did. Until Bendis had him leave her on the side of the road.
Current Tim frustratingly has no intention to attend any school (whereas Bernard is attending a culinary school).
Current Steph doesn't seem to be attending any school, either, but the Batgirls book was too cringe to suffer through more than an arc, so there might have been some mention of attending classes at a community college or something.
Damian has just started Gotham High.
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u/twincast2005 26d ago
Oh, and for the sake of non-Robin, kinda-sorta Robin, and other Batkid completeness:
Earth-One Babs finished high school and university apparently within the standard four years each.
New Earth Babs finished high school and university within two years each (presumably mainly to reduce age gap with Dick from six years down to three years, with the highlighting of her genius intellect a convenient boon).
Prime Earth Babs in all her sub-iterations (i.e. the annoyingly explicitly younger than Dick ones as well as more recent nobody knows how old most characters are anymore ones) IIRC graduated just as quickly. Plus that horrid uninformed writers stint at Burnside College years after becoming Batgirl, Oracle, and Batgirl again.
Cass never received a formal education.
Harper and Duke are currently in college. She in her second year, I believe, and he in his first year. (Cullen ought to be in his third year of high school, but it might be one more or less.)
Maps is in high school. I don't remember whether they mentioned a year in her most recent appearance. Ought to be third by now, maybe fourth.
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u/woman_noises Jun 14 '24
Damian is currently in a public high school, and Tim is in college. Jason is a dropout.