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Terminus99 wrote:

A better question would be "why did Qrow and Raven leave their tribe to attend Beacon?".

Chances are that they wanted to become stronger for some reason. Raven and Qrow left for Beacon "to learn how to kill huntsmen". Raven says this to Yang and Weiss. Huntsmen are the tribes Number 1 enemy and they need the means to deal with them. Qrow and Raven were the right age. So, they went to became huntsmen to kill other huntsmen.