About Public schooling and homeschooling...?

Question

Could I go back to public school after homeschooling for 8 years,and if I get a highschool deploma?

Im 17 and a senior. I want to go to school for the experiance. Long story short, I feel homeschooling has crippled my social life. The reason why i'd have a highschool deploma is because a homeschool course I'm taking. I would graduate after this year and get one, but through the public school record, they probably think i'm a junior. The reason for that is becusae I moved to the US right after Japan and I couldn't communicate for 2nd grade.

I have a few reasons why I think going "back" to school would be a good thing, though I know I could just look ahead rather than back for oppertunities. Get a job, go to college, join clubs etc. I know I should, but I'd also like to know where I stand, as too oppertunities.

Thanks

Answer 1

I had a long, hard battle with myself about transferring back for high school, but I realized that I'd run in to this huge social wall.

Everyone else has been there for three years. They all know each other and have all divided up in to their groups. They're all planning on leaving. If I went in there, I would just have been an outsider. In your case, you'd have to leave by the time you learned the ropes.

Try community college, or join a sports team, or something else besides high school. I know it's really tempting, but you wouldn't get the experience you want.

You would also be surprised at how easy high school and college classes actually are. Unless it's math or science, which you need a knowledge base for, there's no reason you can't jump right in. I'm doing AP US history and I'm 15. I took the PSAT a while ago, didn't prepare at all, and got a 54 in math (equivalent to 540 SAT)

If you head in to community college you'll have the new beginning and the social life you're after. Also, remember that if you get a B average it means you're an average student.

Answer 2

It's a shame your homeschooling wasn't handled better. It really can be a great thing!

Your story is a little confusing, but in the end, you'd really have to talk to the high schools in your area about it. Also explore the possibility of going to a jr. college part-time while you finish your diploma.

Answer 3

I homeschooled my kids ... and my oldest boy is now a 33 year old electrician who makes in excess of $55 an hour.  He's been to college without a highschool diploma, and got a 4.0 gpa there.  He's very social, but he's always been social, even when he was going to school at home ... he had MANY friends who 'hung out' at our house because I was the strictest mom, but who did 'fun stuff' with ALL the kids (fun = educational, to me).  I don't think that if you went to a public high school after you are done with your homeschooling that you will be able to be 'social' ... you won't make many friends there, because the kids are already 'social' with their own friends, and looking forward to college.  Just sign up for college classes and join the college level clubs, and get a job if you want one ... you'll be much better off that way.  You are probably WAY ahead of the other seniors in high school, anyway, but you should fit right in with the college students, since that is a 'beginning' and you'll be better able to make new friends.

Answer 4

You could go back to public school, but why?  Especially if you are nearly done with your high-school level work. You will be bored silly!  You can always try it and get pulled again, but if you get a GED, your highschool experience, academically speaking, will be redundant.  Why not test the social waters in a more challenging academic environment?  Take classes at your local university or community college.  You will meet all sorts of people of all ages who all have similar educational goals.  If you don't feel ready for college, get a job, start a business, join a community group (for instance, a birding group if you like bird watching), get out of your house and see the world... :o)

An attempt to hop into a high-school in your senior year will put you at a distinct disadvantage: nearly everyone else will have been at the school the entire 3 or 4 years, they will know eachother and have different goals and ideas than you, they will have already divided themselves up into groups, and, because you are an outsider, you will find it tough to get accepted (believe me, I know about trying to get accepted when I switched high schools my junior year).  

Going back to public school this late is possible, but do you want to waste the time and effort trying to fit-in?

If you are unsure about going to college right now, please take the time to talk to the folks in admissions at your local university or college about enrolling either full or part-time.  Many universities nowadays accept applicants who apply using portfolios and interviews; GEDs, SATs, ACTs and a whiz-bang high-school experience are NOT always necessary (unless you want to go to Ohio State -- they still require diplomas/GEDs and SATs of homeschoolers).  Most colleges look for kids who love to learn and who are self-motivated, not who can fit into a crowd.  Life experience and an ability to write are more important than how well you've fit into your highschool culture.  Good luck!

:o)

Answer 5

you're better off going to junior college

if you don't have the basic skills they'll just put you into dummy classes

11th and 12th grade is about Trig, pre-calc, civics, math chemsitry or physics, economics, statistics

your supposed to have alrady mastered algebra, geometry, english grammar and compositoin, history, biology

as for social life, people have already coupled at most schools by that point in time.

When they go off to college they'll spread out all over the place, they will not all go to the same college.