Give me reasons to attend a online school next year

What the thread says up top, i won't dump my information or anything... if you don't want to wright a reason just like this thread if you support it.

Backstory; i go to a private school, loud and stressful, where i attend daily private school activities. I have a sleeping problem which keeps me up from time to time so i go to school restless. I also have a problem with concentrating, so a loud noise can really lose my focus. I guess you can say I have ADD if you want to be a asshole. In the middle of school i would fall asleep, which is really not my fault, so I have to catch up on school work time to time, and I'm stressing myself out. My parents don't think i should go to a online school if i don't get good grades this year, but I believe it would be better for me and will show me some responsibility which they think I lack as well.

Any reasons i should attend? Or should I stay? I trust you guys to answer this seriously.

 

If you don't mind abandoning the social aspect of school, and believe you have the willpower to actively do your studies - then give me a reason not to attend online school. Most school subjects are just about memorizing a textbook, which you can always do better in your own time then in a classroom imo.

 

Like every school.

Like every teenager.

Every teenager.

Man up and go to normal school. High school isn't about learning, it's about real life skills like doing boring meaningless tasks, waking up when you don't want to, following orders of people who you don't like, and dealing with peers.

The benefits of online school is being able to stay at home, not interact with people, and have youtube open in the next tab. Sure it's easier, but it's also pointless. I have a good friend who goes to online school, and I don't think it's doing him very much good at all.

Even aside from that, it won't be as much fun as you think. When high school ended I took the semester off. I did nothing all day and drifted away from my friends. Spent weeks inside, alone and depressed. I had always resented school, but I was overjoyed to go back.

 

This will get to you before you even know it. You will lose any tiny sense of responsibility you currently harbor and become unmotivated to do anything. Why? You're not being challenged. You're not *letting* yourself be challenged. All this stress, the loudness, the frustration, everything being uncooperative; You're going to feel that on so many more levels when you're older, and you *need* to be ready for it, or your talents, whatever they may be, will bring you nowhere. It's like having a very nice car with no wheels.

More than all that, you will be denying yourself social experience, too. Maybe you're not very good at being social, but everything in society revolves around interacting with other people, and you'd damn well better be outgoing enough to impress them; and, for that matter, yourself. A life of solitude is not a life at all, and don't delude yourself into thinking otherwise. You need companionship, love, satisfaction, and you will never achieve any of that unless you look for it, and you *want* it. Don't regard these opportunities so carelessly that you put them in the hands of complete strangers, because they are your means to exist contentedly on this earth.

 

I honestly wouldn't care for a soul here.
Everybody is a dickhead to me, and really the only friends i have anymore moved away so i contact them online really. and i got all the love from my parents. I don't live in poor conditions at my house

 

Get used to dudes being a dickhead, because that's a running theme with society today, and it's likely it always has been. Getting used to them is the entire point of challenging yourself; you'll be wiser for it, and all the more appreciative when somebody you haven't known since birth comes around and loves you. It's the only thing I've ever found satisfaction in, and not to be alienating, but I think it's the only thing *anyone* can be satisfied with.

Trials and tribulations test your character as much as they practice it. Don't deny yourself practice.

 

i admit it, yet grades still are a problem.

 

I missed 4th-10th grade of school, a full six years (long story), finished up the high-school curriculum in three months and aced the SAT for a full ride through college. It sure as shit aint easy and it'll ruin your fuckin mind if you don't have the willpower.

If anything, as whats his nuts said before, highschool is about learning to deal with trivial bullshit and learning how to deal with assholes. It does not get better in the real world. I'm sorry to be the dude over the internet to break it to you, but if there's one bit of wisdom I wish I knew sooner it's that people are fuckin stupid as piss and just general all around dickheads. Dealing with people and learning responsibility are the only two pluses a normal highschool gives you.

If you do decide to go for the homeschool route, you need to find a way to keep your fuckin sanity. I mean you NEED to have an outlet outside of the house. That's imperative. Pick up a sport, go work out, go shoot up heroin. JUST GET OUT OF THE HOUSE OR YOU'LL GO CRAZY!

Secondary education is also a factor. What you want to do in the future you can work towards right now. Most

There's more options than just normal highschools as well. Tech schools are a good one, my brother went to one from 10th grade on and got his fork-lift operating license and makes damn good money. He aint bill gates but he's pretty well off and supports a wife and two kids.

I'm just rambling, it's 3:30 AM, I'll write more tomorrow. But seriously it's a really, really major choice and not one to be taken lightly at all. The choice you make will steer your entire life from that point forward, and if you don't have the discipline you'll literally fall flat on your face and be worse off than if you went to highschool.

 

The best school is not in your home, but the world, because one day you have to be ready to go outside. And no book will teach you how to deal asshole, hipster, authority, indifference from your human fellow, and all this shit that you can find in the world.

I've lived in the street for about one year, and I've learned more in this shit than in books.

And sorry, my english is really too shitty to explain you that school is not a big deal.

 

I suppose I should differentiate between your standard homeschoolin and the online highschool-supported curriculum. The difference between the two is quite large.

Your normal "homeschool" is you go off and do whatever the fuck you think you need to do, or just follow the normal outline of a standard curriculum. This is the hard one. You're basically on your own unless you're getting help from your parents or a tutor. If you aren't disciplined and dedicated to following your plan (which is necessary, you need to plan out your own curriculum) it'll wreck your shit and before you know it you don't have jack shit done for the entire year. Every day will be a battle with your mind. Highschool teaches you responsibility and discipline, but if you don't already have those then you'll get eaten alive through raw, unabated hedonistic procrastination. However, that said, if you can follow it and make sure you push yourself until your conscious implodes from information overload, you'll be a god. That ain't no joke, you'll seriously get a years worth of school-work done in a week. It'll be astonishing how quick it goes along.

The only downside if you get your shit together is that you won't get a highschool diploma. This has a variety of implications, the most important being that completing secondary education is an absolute MUST. With a flat out GED you'll be hard pressed to find a job at McDonalds. Speaking of college, you won't have any trouble getting into one without a diploma. You just need to keep a transcript of all your individual courses, their grades, your GPA etc etc. Bascially you can just give yourself all A's for shits and giggles, it's a joke really.

Now the second option is the highschool online curriculum kind of thing. Basically it's exactly like highschool curriculum except that it's online. You can do it whenever you want; Go to bed at 3 A.M., get up at 5 P.M and no ones gonna give a fuck as long as you do your stuff. HOWEVER, there are usually strings attached, I'm pretty sure it varies district to district in what the limitations are, but my district had a required amount of hours you need to put in per day as well as a few meet-ups each month with an advisor. Sometimes it's a pain in the ass since they hold your hand through the entire thing like in highschool ramming jack-shit down your throat just like back in school. You do end up going at your own pace, but you're forced to learn what they teach you. If you already know how to do matrices, guess what? you're gonna do more fuckin matrices. More-so than anything, you're gonna get graded on tests and what-not as well. You'll get a grade, a GPA etc etc. Really, the only benefits I see in this route is that it's easier to follow without going insane and at the end of the day you can get your diploma.

There are plenty of other options though, good luck youngin

Edit:I guess I should mention that the education system in 'murica is borked and the intricacies vary quite drastically state to state. I live in Ohio, so don't take what I say as the absolute truth. Hell, you probably shouldn't even believe me because I'm just a dude on the internet.

 

I tell you what, you can stop going to school, but you have to get a job.

Come back and post results in ten years.

 

I don't want to suffer anymore, online schooling is for the anti-social, and it would be easier for me.. i still hold my case. If something goes wrong and my life turns to shit I will donate developers of kag 5k dollars. I'm serious.

 

Go to school. It helps you in the long run I was told.

Welcome to the world. It's called learn to shut people up and fight if you need to. I am a nerd and I know how to do that. It really isn't hard, and school is supposed to be where you meet friends and have fun. Be less annoying, I know a few kids that are super annoying and don't have any friends because of that. And one of them finally straitened out and made some friends. Life isn't hard unless you make it. And even if they all are annoying, you need to live with it.

I'm 12. :3

 

If you're getting bullied, tell the principal. They won't stop giving you shit, I can promise you that. After you tell the principle, wait a week and sucker punch one of the fuckers in the middle of class as hard as you can and take the suspension. You won't regret a thing, I promise you that.

Kids are brutal and, like many of the guys in action ironically enough, they'll gang up on you so you can't reason with them. School is filled with mother fuckers who'll give you shit until you fuck them up.

More than likely you'll have to fight more than once if you take that route. Just a bit of warning.

 

Tried that telling principle rule, either they don't like me or they aren't very watchful. I'm facing terrible depression because this place. I'm the guy everybody beats up on..

 

Most online courses for high school stuff suck. It's okay for elementary and middle, but when I came out of freshman year with AGII I felt really behind. Might just be the school I'm going to currently, but hey; It took nearly an entire summer to catch up with the science and math courses.
English and other stuff was probably a bunch better though. The name of the program was K-12, if you're interested.

Also, if you're really looking to keep up/get ahead you're going to be doing a bunch of extracurricular material.

Unfortunately, I'm now the weird kid at school that might possibly be a psycho. That nature is due to me liking Dwarf Fortress and not any of the crummy FPS games, my accent (?) and subject matters I like to discuss.

But hey, who cares about social crap. Half the time I wish I could kill everyone around me to reduce the noise and high-pitched jabbering.