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Online school?
Australian, Year 9, female.
Hi,
so I have been thinking a lot about starting online school. I've spoken to my parents about it and they seem slightly reluctant (as I expected), but I'm sure with good reason and persuasion they'll allow it. The thing is, I don't know if I should or not. I find myself constantly thinking of reasons why I should start online school. I really am not liking school, I don't like how teachers emphasise the 'importance' of tests, I don't like all the cliques and the 'popular' people (which also, is a reason why I am not very confident), I don't like that they make us do sport where balls are being thrown around everywhere, yes, I do active things, I just don't enjoy ball sports. I like to teach myself how to do things and I don't believe I need a teacher to do that for me, I am quite independant, it will be more free time for me - I can focus on other things I want to learn, have a part time job (I can make more friends that way too), write, read, make videos, etc. and I have self discipline. I come up with more reasons as I'm at school, just thinking now I can think of a few more reasons, but I don't want to bore anyone reading this.
I don't know all that much about online schooling, so maybe even if someone has done or is doing online school, they could give me a bit of an insight as to what it's like, the pros and cons. Solutions to some of the cons, and cons that don't really have a solution. We do have exams soon, I'm not sure how that works with online school... I just don't know how I would make friends in online school. I do have a group of friends at school at the moment by the way.
Thanks
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I would say if your only main reason of doing online classes is to get away from problems, it would be a bad idea. Online classes are a lot more difficult to pass, especially if you are not an organized person or slack off. Been there. Done that. But if you are just genuinely interested in online classes and you are organized, you should try it for a semester or a year and see how you like it.
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I think you should do online school because you can still learn while avoiding the things you dislike about public school.
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Online schooling or home schooling as it is called does have its place. Mostly it is an alternative to public schooling when public schooling is not available; a hardship for the students to get to or a student is unable to attended school for medical reasons.
Here in The USA home schooling is normal in certain parts of the country. In many parts of the State of Alaska for instance many children live in outposts so remote that it is impossible for them to get to a school. The state provides them with home schooling materiel and they attend classes online. In Middle America in what we call the farm belt. It is a hardship on many of the farm children to actually attend a brick and mortar school as it could be over a 100 miles to the nearest school. These children are either home schooled by their parents with the help of a home school program or on-line through a state program. The problems with these programs are that while you get a good well rounded education. You miss out on other things, call them the non-educational things schools provide that is very much needed some of which you touch on in your writing.
You say, "I don't like how teachers emphasize the 'importance' of tests, I don't like all the cliques and the 'popular' people (which also, is a reason why I am not very confident), I don't like that they make us do sport where balls are being thrown around everywhere, yes, I do active things, I just don't enjoy ball sports. I like to teach myself how to do things and I don't believe I need a teacher to do that for me, I am quite independent." Most everything that you have written will follow you through life. You will find Cliques wherever you go in in life. It is a fact of life.
You don't like ball sports though it is important you learn about them and even how to play them if just badly. My son is a firefighter/paramedic something he is very good at and there are many people alive today because he answered their call for help. You would think that just being a firefighter/paramedic is all that he needs to be. Not true every year his departments along with many other departments in this country hold charity baseball tournaments to raise money for Muscular Dystrophy. They and other departments participate in many other sports and non-sports related charity drives throughout the year.
My company has us participating in the charitable organizations they support as well as the company my wife works for. It is these functions and others that come under the heading of socializing that is learned by going to a public or private brick and mortar school. While socializing is not taught out of a book it is learned in school at church and other public functions. You also learn some of it at home but you practice it at school.
Last but not least; you’re nine years old and while you may be very intelligent and smart. You have yet to learn enough in school to teach yourself and learn on your own. You need a teacher to lead you and that is what a good teacher does. While I do not know anything about the Australian school system I do know this about it. It is one of the world’s best school systems in this world.
Let me play the part of great grandfather for a moment as I am old enough to be your great grandfather. I know you feel you’re mature enough to make the decision to learn on your own. Trust me as I can tell from how you have written to us that you are very mature for your age. That you put a great deal of thought into what you wrote and how you wrote to us. Even with your advanced maturity you still have a great deal of growing and maturing to do before you take on these types of responsibilities. Your parents are not trying to stifle you by refusing you on this. They are trying to help you by seeing to it that you have every opportunity to grow and mature correctly so that as an adult you are prepared to go out into the adult world.
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