I WAS GOiNG TO GO CYBER SCHOOL?

Question

AND i WAS FiNE WiTH iT CUSZ i COULDNT GO TO THE SCHOOL i WANTED TO ND iT WAS TOO LATE TO OTHER SCHOOLS. {MY PARENTS DONT LIKE THE SCHOOL IN MY DISTRICT}BUT THEN I GOT EXSEPT TO MY NUMBER 2 SCHOOL BUT WE WHERE ALREADY SINED UPND READY FOR CYBER SCHOOL WEN THEY CALLED! AT FIRST MY MOM LIKED THIS SCHOOL AND EVEN SAID WE'D CHECK OUT THE ORENTATION BUT AS SOON AS SHE TALKED TO MY DAD SHE SAID NO I WONT EVEN WASTE MY TIME. I DONT WANT TO SIT AT HOME ALL DAY I WANT TO MAKE FRIENDS ITS GONNA BE MY FRESHMAN YEAR!!!! HELP? ADVICE?

Answer 1

Cyber school might actually free you up to spend more time with friends- join a homeschool group or a youth group- you will make lots of friends.

Answer 2

Being in cyber school doesn't mean you have to sit home all day. If you focus well and schedule yourself well, you should be able to get your work done by noon (working from 8-12). You then have the afternoons to go out and do things! Find a homeschool support group and see if there is a teen group or other activities going on. Find a place to volunteer. Sign up for extra-curricular activities. Meet friends you already have for lunch. Do things with them on the weekends. See what kinds of homeschool classes may be offered in your community (a homeschool support group can help with that, but also just looking in recreation centre guides, for example).

There's so much life for you to live! Don't let yourself be shut up at home when you can be out there and living life while other kids are shut up in schools.

Answer 3

Heh Chels,

Take it from me that you really are worrying over nothing! I'm 14, am home educated and rarely, if ever, spend my days just sitting at home all day...and my parents moan cuz my social life is too hectic! Right now, I really want to do the veterinary medicine course when it comes up at TAFE but, according to Mum, I can't cuz she and dad reckon I'm doing too much already! That's another positive with being home educated - you get to do classes that wouldn't be available to you if you went to conventional school.

There is absolutely no reason why you (or any other kid) has to go to school to make friends - even the kids you would have gone to school with will still be around the neighbourhood, pool, beach etc after 4pm and at weekends! And no reason why, if you do have friends at school, you can't go and join them for lunch somedays. Plus check and see if the school will let you join their library, co-curricular activities etc. Or even if they will let you do some courses at school in addition to your doing cyber school independently.

Also you'll probably be surprised to discover how many other kids in your town are home educated...and once you do, you can always arrange to meet up with some of them and take advantage of the quieter (and cheaper!) times to have a go at whatever activities kids do in your town. And there are always homeschool forum classes and group activities and outings that you can sign up for: my 15 year old brother is (along with 39 other home educated 13-17 year olds) currently away on an activity holiday with one of the homeschool groups here, spending the week doing stuff like rock climbing, kayaking, abseiling, surfing, horse riding

etc.

Finally don't think that cuz school goes from 9-3, 5 days a week that you'll be huddled over the books for the same amount of time at home - you won't. You shouldn't be. Most home educated teenagers can get through all their lessons for the day in a couple of hours. If you choose to do lessons in the morning then you should be done by lunchtime. That then leaves you with the afternoons free to get out of the house, meet and spend the rest of the day hanging out with people with whom you share common interests, a common goal etc. Get out into your community, throw yourself into whatever's going on (and once you start to look, you'll probably be surprised at how much does go on - try your local library, TAFE, community website for starters)....and by the end of the year, you'll probably wonder why anyone would want to spend their days shut away in school for all that time when they could be doing so much more (and both learning and having fun with it) outside of school!

Who knows? Maybe this time next year, it'll be your mum and dad telling you that they reckon you're taking on too much and need to slow down, lol.

Answer 4

you're falling for that old line that homeschooled kids aren't socialized. Just because you're homeschooled that doesn't mean you can't make friends. Get involved with a homeschool support group in your area where you can meet other homeschooled kids. Join the YMCA, make friends there. Volunteer for community activities, nursing homes, soup kitchens, children's hospitals. Life is all around you, and so are the opportunities to make friends, with all ages of people.

Answer 5

yes surely

Answer 6

In my state, home schooled children pay $10 to enroll in all activities offered by the public schools. Our libraries offer free clubs in reading and writing among other things. My daughter gets to go to art classes during the day with other home schooled kids. She joined a swim team and has friends there too.