Without getting into too much detail about my past and personal life, as I do not feel comfortable discussing it on here, all I will reveal about my situation is that I have some psychological issues (PTSD being one of them), and I have been dealing with them for over three years now. I am currently seeing both a therapist and psychologist and am prescribed medications to help me with these problems; I have been getting help for a little under a year. With that said, these issues have lead me to become antisocial and completely withdrawn from any kind of social contact, thus causing me to be held back in the seventh grade for the past three years now. I am fifteen years old.
My grandparents are my legal guardians and have been for the past year, but I have been living with them since I was ten. After beginning my therapy sessions, my grandparents were generous enough to enroll me into an online school to see if it would ease my situation more than the previous public schooling did. The program they picked is great and everything, but it isn't for me. The main problem here is knowing that I am trapped in the seventh grade for another year because of my psychological disorders and choices and it honestly makes me feel like a failure. Therefore, I've become even more depressed over the situation, and as a result I have stopped doing schoolwork completely.
After thinking long and hard about what my future is going to become, and knowing that I am making another negative decision when it comes to my education, I have decided that even though my situation is pretty bad, I'm gonna try and turn it into something good. I think that the best thing for me to do right now is to study hard and take classes to prepare myself for GED exam from now until it comes time for me to actually take the exam next year when I am sixteen years old and legally able to drop out of school. From there I plan on joining a community college so that I may have a better future, a fresh start at life, and some mental peace.
I have already bought numerous books and have even printed out several packets of practice sheets covering the various subjects that will be brought up on the exam so that I can get to understand what to look forward to. I'm happy to say that I know basically everything that I have gone over so far. I've only misunderstood about three things out of all of the material, and I obviously found out how to solve the problems I didn't know. I'm confident enough at this point to know that I will have little or no major problems when it comes time for me to take the exam. So like I have already said, after taking the test I plan on visiting some community colleges to get a feel of which one I could see myself at and which one has exactly what I am looking for in a school. I don't know if it matters or not, but I plan on majoring in English/Creative Writing.
Because I currently know nothing about community college or colleges in general, the first question I want to know the answer to is: If I dropout of the seventh grade at age sixteen and obtain a GED, would a community college accept me? My second question is for those of you that have ever been to a community college, I basically want to know what a day-to-day basis would be like. I'm assuming that it's pretty much exactly like any other school, the only difference being the age of the majority of students and what the class work is focused on. But I could be dead wrong, which is why I am asking you guys.
-- I just wanted to thank those of you that ACTUALLY took the time to read my long a** question instead of being a douche and commenting so you could get a quick two points. Is this website no longer a help site, but a race? If you ask me, people who do crap like that are pathetic. Once again, thanks to the people who actually read everything. My apologies for the question being so damn long, I wasn't sure if any of the information I wrote mattered or not so I just decided on writing it.
My grandparents are my legal guardians and have been for the past year, but I have been living with them since I was ten. After beginning my therapy sessions, my grandparents were generous enough to enroll me into an online school to see if it would ease my situation more than the previous public schooling did. The program they picked is great and everything, but it isn't for me. The main problem here is knowing that I am trapped in the seventh grade for another year because of my psychological disorders and choices and it honestly makes me feel like a failure. Therefore, I've become even more depressed over the situation, and as a result I have stopped doing schoolwork completely.
After thinking long and hard about what my future is going to become, and knowing that I am making another negative decision when it comes to my education, I have decided that even though my situation is pretty bad, I'm gonna try and turn it into something good. I think that the best thing for me to do right now is to study hard and take classes to prepare myself for GED exam from now until it comes time for me to actually take the exam next year when I am sixteen years old and legally able to drop out of school. From there I plan on joining a community college so that I may have a better future, a fresh start at life, and some mental peace.
I have already bought numerous books and have even printed out several packets of practice sheets covering the various subjects that will be brought up on the exam so that I can get to understand what to look forward to. I'm happy to say that I know basically everything that I have gone over so far. I've only misunderstood about three things out of all of the material, and I obviously found out how to solve the problems I didn't know. I'm confident enough at this point to know that I will have little or no major problems when it comes time for me to take the exam. So like I have already said, after taking the test I plan on visiting some community colleges to get a feel of which one I could see myself at and which one has exactly what I am looking for in a school. I don't know if it matters or not, but I plan on majoring in English/Creative Writing.
Because I currently know nothing about community college or colleges in general, the first question I want to know the answer to is: If I dropout of the seventh grade at age sixteen and obtain a GED, would a community college accept me? My second question is for those of you that have ever been to a community college, I basically want to know what a day-to-day basis would be like. I'm assuming that it's pretty much exactly like any other school, the only difference being the age of the majority of students and what the class work is focused on. But I could be dead wrong, which is why I am asking you guys.
-- I just wanted to thank those of you that ACTUALLY took the time to read my long a** question instead of being a douche and commenting so you could get a quick two points. Is this website no longer a help site, but a race? If you ask me, people who do crap like that are pathetic. Once again, thanks to the people who actually read everything. My apologies for the question being so damn long, I wasn't sure if any of the information I wrote mattered or not so I just decided on writing it.