{"id":1701,"date":"2012-11-14T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njcts.org\/teens4ts\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2012-11-14T08:00:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T13:00:50","slug":"my-life-in-school-part-2-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njcts.org\/teens4ts\/my-life-in-school-part-2-the-present\/","title":{"rendered":"My life in school, part 2: The Present"},"content":{"rendered":"

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

~ Chinese Proverb<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hello everyone. In my\u00a0last post<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(which got quite a few comments — thank you, everyone!), I talked about how life in school was for me in the past. It was horrific, terrible, depressing and overwhelming. Now, I will talk about how my life was set straight — how everything finally started brightening up.<\/p>\n

So I told you how I became suicidal in 7th grade and how my mom took me out because of how horrible everyone was to me. Well, after mom took me out, I never finished 7th grade. I went 9 months without school because we were trying to figure out how I could go to school without going through the same situations that I did before. Mom already had homeschooling in consideration.<\/p>\n

Now, at the time, I didn’t want to do homeschooling. I loathed the thought of even trying it. I don’t know why, but I just hated everything about it. Actually, everything I thought about it was wrong. I thought I had to stay home all the time and never see friends. I thought I would still have to use textbooks and my teachers would still be cruel to me. I thought they would send me a ton of homework and that it would be sent back in a complicated system. I thought I’d never have homecoming or prom. I just went all negative on the subject.<\/p>\n

But my mom realized that it would probably be the best thing for me. So she started going to her friend on how to get me into Florida Virtual School<\/a><\/strong> (FLVS). Her friend homeschooled all three of her kids using FLVS. So she knew how everything worked. After registering and getting settled in, I learned how to choose my courses. My first year in FLVS was 8th grade. I was very nervous when I found out that I had to talk to my teachers over the phone, especially for welcome calls. It took me a year and a half to get used to talking to my teachers.<\/p>\n

Ever since I started homeschooling, I was much happier. I was more positive about school, I learned more than I ever did — even in math, and my teachers became more like best friends. I have only had one teacher who was kind of a jerk. And one teacher was kind of difficult, but she wasn’t mean.<\/p>\n

I am doing well in school so far. Ever since I started high school, I had at least one male teacher in each grade. This year, I have my first male math teacher. He’s so funny and he’s very understanding. I am keeping a B in Algebra 2 which usually NEVER happens in any math class.<\/p>\n

I will be finishing high school in FLVS. I’m doing well now, and I won’t be fixing something that isn’t broken. Some of my old friends are saying that I’m missing out on the high school experience. But, really, I’m not. I don’t want to go through all of that drama and peer pressure. I don’t want to deal with pressure about relationships and sex and alcohol and drugs and my tics and so forth. I’m happy where I am, and I’m sticking to it.<\/p>\n

That’s my school life for ya! Hope you all are having a sweet day. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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