I’m currently in my junior year of high school. I really hate it. I have a lot of friends in theory, but no best friends so I spend most of my time alone anyhow. I never found my niche, so even when I’m in a group of people I feel isolated and secluded.
I don’t think I have gained anything from my high school social experience
I have severe scoliosis and neck trauma so my back pack causes ongoing pain and posture issues. i get less than 6 hours of sleep most nights, which has affected my overall health. I participate in a number of activities outside of school and would busy myself with going to the gym, my internship, volunteering, and writing (my dream is to publish before I graduate.)
I like the idea of moving at my own pace, since I excel in history and english and need more time in math a science. In fact, my focus issues make it so that I have to self teach myself most of the science curriculum anyhow from power points.
I took an online class for school and did a fantastic job. I am great at time mgmt. and got an a+ and excellent comments.
Would this be right for me? I’m so miserable in traditional high school, I’d love to know there was another option out there.
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Is Online High School Right For Me?
Posted on January 3, 2012.
It sounds like you’d be an extremely good candidate for online schooling.
Although it sounds like you already have quite a bit going on outside of school currently, I would strongly suggest looking for a club or group (maybe a book group/writing group considering your interests) to join so that you can meet new people who are interested in similar things as you. I have a close friend who tried online schooling for a semester her sophomore year, but who ended up feeling even more lonely and isolated despite her close friends. In the end, she had difficultly managing her time and staying on top of her school work because of the complete lack of structure.
If you end up doing online schooling, it might be a good idea to make a semi-detailed schedule of each week so that you make sure that you’re able to stay on task in the long run, as well as plan in a few hours every day that you would spend outside of your house, hopefully meeting people/having human interaction outside of your family.
In the meantime, do research on different schools, talk to your family and school officials to see if you can work everything out. Depending on when school starts this semester for you and how fast things move, you might even be able to do this coming semester online. If not, it’s only a few months until the semester is over and you could try to get it together for the beginning of your senior year.
It sounds like you’ve thought this over carefully and I wish you luck in the future, whether you end up doing online schooling or not.