Online schooling??

Question

Alright so pretty much I hate high school. I'm a sophomore right now and I know it would be better for me to do online schooling. I'm 110 percent sure it'd be better for me. Basketball season just ended for me and I have no other extra cirricular activities. I have friends at school, they understand. Its not that i'm lazy to go to school, its that i'm really NOT a morning person. i mean i've tried over and over to train myself to wake up at 6 with a alarm and i can't! i haven't been to first period class in 4 weeks because im always late to school. its sad. i want to go, its not the class its just the way i work. theres online schooling in my city that i live in and i'd really like to do it. my dad is behind me 120 percent and my mom is sorta behind me. they know it'd be better for my grades, i'm online 5-7 hours a day anyway. my attendence sucks. im good at school though. taking full honors. anyway, i talked to my counseler and he said my parents have to call but with others he just

Answer 1

Here's some info on online homeschooling:

http://www.successful-homeschooling.com/...

Answer 2

I completely understand.  I could go on for a while but I'll just suggest to PLEASE get the "Teenage Libertarian Handbook: how to quit school and get a real life and education". I've "rised out" of school too and it was a great choice. This book is a great resource and I highly recommend it!

Answer 3

Online schooling is fun sometimes but its still fun to do it in a school ! University of nebraska lincoln is a great online hs!

Answer 4

Your school may not be wanting you to leave for two reasons - one, you're an honor student that most likely brings up their testing scores (which is what their funding is based on) and two, the online school may be sponsored by another school district, which means they'd lose the tax money they receive from you - it would go to the other district.

Money and test scores - that's what most public schools worry about.

Since your parents are all for it, I'd say give it a try.  You can always disenroll and go back to your B&M high school.  However, it may be too late to enroll in the online school for this semester.  You might want to tough out the rest of the year, and enroll for fall.

As an online student, you may not be able to play sports, so if basketball is important to you, you need to find out the online school rules.  You can always join a community team instead.

I worked with a couple of online schools doing parent trainings.  They are a great option for many students and families.

I'm seriously not a morning person, either!  :-o!  That's why I'm glad my job is to be a homeschool parent.  I can start later in the day...which is my son's preference also!  :-)

EDITED For Stanley - I have one child who I homeschool and one child who is in public school and always has been.  I know both sides.  I was hired by an online school to act as a trainer and parent-teacher liaison.

My DD in PS has an IEP.  Don't tell me it's not all about money and test scores.  Sure, there are wonderful teachers (my DD has one now), but they can only do what the district/union tells them to do.

Answer 5

I left public school when I was a sophomore to do online school. I barely knew anything about it at the time, but I was soo fed up with drama, and thought that my education was more important than social status, you know? So I enrolled in an online Charter school. I couldn't say enough good things about it, I wish I would have done it my whole highschool years. You get to sleep in(yay!), stay up late--but not only that, it is really beneficial to your learning. You learn at your own pace, and get 1 on 1 time with your teachers. I would recommend it 100%. Good luck!

Answer 6

I am going to be honest with you and tell you something you might not want to hear.....suck it up.  You sound like an immature child who doesn't want to eat their green beans.  If you want to be a grown-up then start acting like one.  Life is full of things we don't want to do but we have to work to live.

If you’re having trouble waking up it's probably because you have been online "5-7 hours a day".  When do you have time for this amount of obsessive behavior?  Is this keeping you up late and why you can't wake up at 6am?  Honestly if you are getting to bed by 11 pm at the latest there is no reason you shouldn't be able to get up with a little discipline otherwise you need to seek medical help and find out why your not sleeping.

Bottom Line: STAY IN SCHOOL

To HS Mom:  Where do you get your facts?  You sound like one of those HS moms is for some reason jaded by the public school and looks down on parents who send their children to Public Schools.  Believe it or not there are many PS teachers who honestly care about their students and their futures.  It's not all about money and test scores.  Counselors have seen time and time again the results of unmotivated students who drop out of school and know that most will never go to graduate from any type of program.  Also, by the askers own admission she can't wake up in time for school.  Seriously, if her parents can't make sure she gets to school on time how are they going to begin to be able to make sure she is doing all her online work?  By the way public schools (it does vary from state to state) get the majority of their funding from property taxes and then state funding.  Most of that is not tied to testing but to student attendance.

Edited for PS Mom:  With all due respect I have worked in a public school for 15 years now and my wife has too as a special ed teacher.  I have served on text book committees, ARD comittees, LPAC comittees, district improvement committees, counselor interview comittees, etc.  I have never once, nor have heard of another PS employee mention, nor be asked to by anyone to encourage a student who is testing poorly to drop out of school so we don't loose money for them.  It is an inuslt to PS teachers who have sacraficed so much for their students to think we would put money above the welfare of a child we have worked so hard for.  I am appalled that you would encourage a child online to drop out of school because you somehow believe that her counselors care nothing about her except for the money she generates.  Scary more is that you don't even know what school this girl attends, or the state, much less khow her counselor and motives.  

Once again you show your lack of knowledge on school funding and how it is generated.  You show a lack of knowledge as to how testing affects schools and who is behind high stakes testing.  Testing has been tied in some areas to teacher incentive pay and in some cases to forcing a district to offer vouchers to students to attend private schools, but funding for PS schools mostly comes from property taxes and state funding which is tied not to test scores but to individual daily attendance.   In addition high stakes testing does not come from schools, districts, or even unions.  All are spending massive resources to fight the invasion of high stakes testing.  If you want to blame some one blame the politicians who have pushed this.