I'm currently in 8th grade and me and my friend are trying to ditch school for just a year. Will it work?

Question

Me and my friend are thinking about bustin' our asses to skip 9th grade for like a 10 month summer. We plan to be home schooled and pretty much help each other with assignments. Talking to a few homeschooled kids about how long a school day is for them they reason its within an hour or two. Our goal is if we work 7 hour days like normal public schools (or maybe more... depends how motivated we are) we estimate we'll be able to finish 9th grade within 1 and half to 2 months. My question is this. Being homeschooled is it allowed for a student to work ahead and finish the second semester within the first?

Answer 1

Sounds like an uprising, I love it!. Good for you, school is a bad place these days, especially for girls. You will have less influence of drugs, s*x, and control by n**i liberal teachers.

They actually dumb you down there, you will become so smart so soon at home, you will find yourself loving learning. The only thing I would suggest to you, is not try and follow what the school is doing. You are free now to learn your country's correct "History", and God's creation(science). Most of the junk they shove down your throat is a waste of  your time. I don't like all the counseling and attitudes there like they are your parents. You should RUN and never look back!

My kids are all home schooled, and my 3 sisters kids have all been home schooled, these kids are so happy and smart, and socialize so much better than school kids. My kids can hold a long conversation with people of all ages. People are always impressed with home schoolers, and so are colleges.

I wish I would have never went to high school, I would have skipped out on so much heartache. There was this guest on Oprah that said High School was very bad for girls, it was a great show.

Anyways, you have a great plan, don't listen to those who will put you down, they have an agenda. You will succeed and be a better person for this. Just make sure to keep in contact with your school friends, you will need them. Get phone numbers, emails etc... I made sure my kids did this, the true friends still come around.

Answer 2

"DITCH" said it all. You're being an idiot and you're TRYING to get out of school.

How will you get ANYWHERE in life if you try and get out of school.

Homeschool suxs!

Answer 3

thats the most retarted thing..

Answer 4

You dolt. This is the dumbest idea I have ever heard of in the history of dumb ideas. If you want to be homeschooled, that's fine. If you want to homeschool just to get out of doing work, you're being an idiot and a slacker. Homeschooling takes as much work as, if not more, than going to public/private school. Look, apparently at your school they are forcing you to work, which is a good thing for your lazy butt.

Homeschooling is NOT the answer to getting out of work- it's the path to success. However, you can only be successful if you are DILIGENT. You, my uncompromisingly idiotic friend, are far too lazy to homeschool. Homeschooling requires effort- you have no drive, other than to escape work. The homeschooled kids you talked to were also dolts- both for misrepresenting homeschooling and encouraging your hairbrained plan.

Also, you never even mentioned the parents. What are you, a Lost Boy or something? Everyone has either parents or a legal guardian. For some reason you are inclined to believe that all the adults in your life are as dumb as you and will go along with this scheme. Adults are not stupid.

Let me repeat that: ADULTS ARE NOT STUPID. They won't let you get away with this, and even if you are planning on not telling them, the school has paperwork that needs to be filled out by a legal adult before they let you transfer. Plus, if you skip town without notifying anyone, the school will contact your parents. (Yes, the schools have your parents' number)

Now look. For all this rant, I'm sure I sound like some homeschooling dissident or public-school advocate. I am neither, and I love homeschooling. It's taken effort. It's taken work. And even when I was your age, I still couldn't see the light. I didn't see where it was all going. Now I know, and I couldn't wish for anything better.

Homeschooling requires effort. You are trying to get out of work. Homeschooling is not for slackers, the faint-of-heart, the lazy, or the people looking for a get-educated-faster-than-normal scheme. Yours is an idea that would only work if your attitude was in the right place. To be honest, your attitude towards everything- school, friends, work- it sucks. Bad. Now grow up, face the music, and work your butt off come September.

Good luck, to you both.

Answer 5

I've actually never heard of a worse idea.

Why in the world would you do that?

Answer 6

Of course you can if you base your 9th grade curriculum on the public school state standards.  You learn xyz that they want and are able to pass the state exams on the subjects at the end of the year still, which is hard to do if you don't actually learn the material. It would be a lot of work though and I have serious doubts that you or most kids could actually do it.   As for homeschooling, its more of a lifestyle of learning, not just cramming it in and taking breaks.  That sounds more like college....

Answer 7

Wait a second here...

Some homeschoolers don't have a highly academic program and do finish their daily work at your grade level within a couple of hours. It doesn't sound like you want to skip on the academics, so it's highly unlikely you'd finish 9th grade in 2 months. Expect a good 4 hours for just the minimum stuff. You could cut the year in half, most likely.

Some questions for you to help you figure out your answer: What do your parents think about this plan? Are they willing to have you take all that time off? Where are you getting the assignments from? Who's going to check them? What do you plan on doing during that time off? Have you considered the possiblity of doing both grades 9 and 10 next year instead of "ditching school"?

If you are doing basic homeschooling, it's the parents who have the say. If they're okay with you doing two months of work and then nothing the rest of the time, then so be it. But if you are planning on going back to school the following year and end up having to take a placement test, you'll have spent 10 months without having done serious math or other things. Really consider ALL factors with this one.

Answer 8

Bad plan.  You are obviously trying to get out of the required work.  Proper home schooling, which is extremely rare, requires extra attention to detail and records.  Home schooling seems to be, for you, a way to have a 10 month summer.  Stay in school.  It will pay of in the long run, guaranteed.

Answer 9

well if your getting homeschooled sure

but you need someone to teach you and i think you need to pay for materials like books and curiculum. it wont take 2 months probably a little bit shorter than a regular school year b/c i know if i was to get Home schooled then id be a slacker since im at home and i dont think id learn

do what you want and not of your friends

it will be much more benfitial for you to go to 9th grade b/c its HS and you are offered AP classes good towards college and if you dont go in 9th grade you might have to repeat it if you transfer to public again.

Answer 10

no, ****** r****d, no wonder you're in 8th grade

Answer 11

In most states, you're required to attend (be educated in some form) for 176-180 days per year; it has nothing to do with how many grade levels you can pass.  For example, my 10yo is taking algebra and high school marine biology/oceanography, but that doesn't mean I'll put him in the 9th grade.  It simply means that he's doing that level of work.

Most homeschoolers don't gauge their grade level by the level of work they're doing; heck, most of them wouldn't even know what grade they're in if they didn't have to answer strangers about it when asked.  Many homeschool kids are all over the board - my 10yo is in high school math and science, 5th grade spelling, 6th grade grammar, 7th-9th grade writing (depending on the type of writing), and reads classics like Tolkien and Jules Verne.  However, I tell him he's starting 6th grade for 2 reasons - first, it puts him with kids closer to his age at church and other places, and second, he's completed his 180 days for 5th grade.  He's fine with moving on to 6th without taking a break in between.

You can finish a school year in 3-4 months if you want, but that won't give you 8-9 months off.  It'll just put you ahead, and you can spend the next 100 days or so working on your next grade level.

Edit - while being homeschooled, you don't have to put in 180 days of book work, but of something that can be counted as school.  If you and your friend want to do things that can still be counted as school, but you're done with your school work for the year, there's nothing wrong with that.  You have to get your parents on board, but lots of things can be counted as school.  However, just completely ditching - i.e., doing absolutely nothing - will get you in trouble for truancy.

Answer 12

What a terrific plan!

With homeschooling, you can go at your own rate, studying what you want, when you want.  It's a wonderful lifestyle.  

I highly recommend you read "The Teenage Liberation Handbook" by Grace Llewelyn.

Best of luck to you both :D