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I'm failing my junior year and have bad attendance, and I just got lice in my dreadlocks so I have to mis
I'm from newyork. I got dreadlocks last year and they've been great, but my little sister gave me lice so I have to either cut my hair or comb them out, but it takes weeks. I've missed a lot of school already and my junior year is pretty much down the drain already. would I be able to finish my junior year online and do my senior year in school? Or should I just give up? I've tried everything but life just seems to keep throwing things at me, like somethings trying to tell me something, to give up and start my life. I know how hard it is to live without a highschool diploma but I don't see how to fix my school career, along with dealing with my hair.
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I really know nothing about lice but can help with your school problem. Ask yourself honestly why you hate being there and are ducking going? Be brutal with yourself. Are you being bullied, courses too hard, learning disabled etc.?
Next approach the guidance dept. and principal at your school and tell them straight up that you know you have screwed up your entire year and let them know conventional school doesn't work for you and that you absolutely hate being there and feel it has no relevance to what you want to do.
One option may be an alternative high school where you take courses half a day and learn a trade that interests you the rest. There are also adult day schools that perhaps you can get an exemption for and enroll and do courses that way where your classmates are adults.
I wouldn't recommend correspondence courses because you have to be ultra motivated to do them and succeed. If you can't go to school or stand it you won't with these courses. Teaching yourself takes tremendous discipline.
You should sit down with your parents and approach the school and get a solution and stick with it. If you need summer school to fix your year do it. You need a high school education to get anywhere afterwards.
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Lice is something that you didn't have any direct input into making happen. We had lice outbreaks with grade school twice a year so I knew the routine and it sucks. It took me from early morning until bed time once to work throughly on my daughters hair. I did learn that lice these days in some areas have become resistant to the regular lice medication at pharmacies. But in case you plan to keep the hair and not shave it all off (the easy way for guys) I recommend buyin a large jar of mayonnaise and working it into your hair until it is heavily saturated in it. Then you leave it on a half hour. I've seen reports that it doesn't work, but another mom told me, it did kill adult lice (by suffocation cus of the heavy oils) after I tried the regular lice medicine and they happily swam around in it for hours without dying. The real problem is the eggs so with the long hair you have, you'll need someone dedicated to help you. Work with a bright work spot light on the hair. Section it off with rubber bands into tiny sections. Work one section at a time using the bright light and perhaps a magnifying glass too. Some nits on the hairs are not going to be obvious as they're still small but will grow to become visible in a couple of days. So you'll want to do this process every 2 days for a while until you find the ones that didn't look like nit eggs before. I am sure the school won't want you attending while going through this process. Ours wouldnt let the kids in without the school nurse checking them out and giving the all clear before allowed in again.
I don't know the reasons why you've had bad attendance but thats gonna be directly linked to failing grades. Staying away while fighting lice is going to add to the missing days. You and the parents might request from the school office a meeting with all your teachers to be in attendance at once and find out what can still be done to make up missing assignments and keep up with current ones. Another option might be summer school to get caught up before Senior year.
However this all doesnt take care of whatever the issues are that caused you to not apply yourself. Stress at home? Bullying at school? Low self confidence? Anxiety issues? Or...some kids with high IQ's are simply too bored to do the work even though they can ace it without effort. Whatever your issues, those need to be addressed or you'll have the same troubles in Sr. year. If you drop out and try computer courses or attending a GED class, you will still have some of those same issues to face. I wish you the best. You're right, high school diploma is important. So do whatever will work for you to get one.
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