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Convince parents to let me homeschool
I'm seventeen years old and a senior in high school. I absolutely hate it. I'm a somewhat intelligent kid, but I have a 1.8 GPA and it's because I'm not equipped to handle all the social stress and the environment of high school. I've honestly reached my breaking point. I can't go to school anymore without sobbing uncontrollably either the night before or the morning before. My family has been having a lot of problems lately and I don't want to bother them with mine; I always intended on having a talk with them about possibly homeschooling me but I put it off because they were depressed or in a bad mood. Unfortunately, my mom caught me attempting to skip school the other day, and understandably, I got in a load of trouble. I honestly didn't mind, but I just wanted them to listen to me and consider homeschool. They're completely against it. I know I only have a year left of high school but I can't take it anymore and I honestly believe homeschooling would remove so much stress from my life. I've offered to get a job and take on more responsibilities, but because of my past not-so-stellar grades, they refuse to listen. How can I possibly convince them that homeschool really WOULD make me motivate myself to do well?
I'm sorry this was long but thank you to anyone that read it.
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You will have these problems all your life. Learn to deal with them now instead of running away from them. Social stress is a part of life. What do you plan on doing with your life? Do you plan on getting a job? Going to college? There will be the same amount of social stress in those places as you are experiencing in high school. Homeschooling will fix your problem for now, but don't you want to fix it for your future? Experiencing a time where there is little social stress in your life will only make it worse when you have to face it again. You can get through it. You're not a wimpy, fragile person. You seem like a very strong willed, outgoing person to me. Only the weak need to give up on social interaction. You don't need to. You can take on this challenge. It's only for a year and what about your family? You say there's a lot of problems at home, wouldn't you being homeschooled put even more stress on your family? The thing with social stress is that it only bothers you as much as you let it. I had a lot of crap go on my senior year that stressed me out, but after I let it stop bothering me, I was fine. All the he said, she said, gossip, and garbage doesn't have to affect you. If you feel like you have few friends, well you'll have no friends after this year anyway and will have to start completely over because high school is over and everyone will move on to different places.
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I had that problem, actually. I convinced my parents to let me homeschool by meeting people that do did it already and that were succesful about it. I showed them the pros and cons of the public school system and the homeschool system. Do some research on the homeschool systems in your state. You can take courses online or do the Abeka system or numerous other systems.
www.abeka.com
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I was in your same postion well I was in grade 5, I did cry every night and day. I hated school. The best thing to do is stick with it and contuine, Things will get better. My family had problems then to the had just got divorced it was hard.
But if I could I would proberly get homeschooled, They do programs through the school were they give you alot fo work to do and you have to do it by yht end of semester/year.
I know it's really hard to talk to parents about it and no they don't listen ;)
Maybe do a little more researcxh on it, Most parents think homeschooling is teaching there kid but they do have prgrams.
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