I'm on the verge of dropping out of high school. Any ideas from both sides?

[WeedZ]

@BlueFox gui, @Quantumcat said that in 5 to 10 years your personality will be "fixed". I just wanted to add that in 5 to 10 years your personality is going to be different regardless. It's up to you how it turns out. It can improve or, believe it or not, it can be worse.

 

[BlueFox gui]

i don't understand half of the things you guys says, change myself never worked, i already tried i just can't fit with others

 

[WeedZ]

i don't understand half of the things you guys says, change myself never worked, i already tried i just can't fit with others

Is it a language barrier? The point is there are people to help with this sort of stuff. But you have to want to. It's scary and difficult, but all new things are. The best things in life are.

 

[Quantumcat]

@BlueFox gui, @Quantumcat said that in 5 to 10 years your personality will be "fixed". I just wanted to add that in 5 to 10 years your personality is going to be different regardless. It's up to you how it turns out. It can improve or, believe it or not, it can be worse.

It will have better coping skills and social skills if trained while still plastic or if you're very unlucky it could get changed for the worse if you experience a trauma

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i don't understand half of the things you guys says, change myself never worked, i already tried i just can't fit with others

It is difficult or impossible to do it on your own. Like quitting drugs or smoking by going cold turkey and relying on your willpower alone. To change it needs to be imposed on you (like my experience was) or guided with a professional.

 

[the_randomizer]

lol so i'm fucked then i'm already 18 and i still can't make friends or such things, and no they don't forgive teenagers at least not here, just in there than, here family always called me retarded and such things and complained with me

Well, call them that name right back, fair's fair.

 

[BlueFox gui]

Well, call them that name right back, fair's fair.

and get hitted by them, hell no XD

 

[Zhongtiao1]

If you have the option of taking community college classes in high school, go for that. You'll be with more mature people, be able to finish your high school degree faster, and get the advantage of having college courses you can transfer. If you are opposed to that for some reason or another, see if your school/school district offers online classes. Even if there is only one or two courses you can take online, it makes it a lot easier to deal with school. Starting in my Junior year at high school I took two online courses and one at the community college with the rest at school. It was a lot better for me socially as people are more mature at college than in high school.

My two cents there.

The CompTIA A+ exam, which I have, may not last long, but it does open doors for decent paying jobs. All my friends after high school (the few I had) were starting out at $12.75 an hour, and I was starting at $15. Every job in the base of the IT sector though requires a High School/GED degree though.

 

[osaka35]

If you're being held back, get a G.E.D. and go to a technical college to get certifications. Most of the tech industry revolves around expensive certifications.

It will not hurt you to go ahead and get your G.E.D. and go to college. The only thing required is you to be mature enough to handle it. And that's all you.

 

[petethepug]

don't, most places require a high school diploma to even apply for certain jobs. You would be giving yourself hell if you dropped out,

 

[Arolandis]

I dropped out when I was 16 and earned my GED, went through college, and now work in IT.

I do game development, web development and design, and learned several different programming languages as a hobby. Sometimes rom hack on the side. I think high school diplomas are overrated. It's better to focus on learning exactly what you want to learn, and get what you need in order to pursue your career (in this case a GED, then maybe some certifications). Not everyone will agree with you but it's your life and your decision to make.

 

[BlueFox gui]

I dropped out when I was 16 and earned my GED, went through college, and now work in IT.

I do game development, web development and design, and learned several different programming languages as a hobby. Sometimes rom hack on the side. I think high school diplomas are overrated. It's better to focus on learning exactly what you want to learn, and get what you need in order to pursue your career (in this case a GED, then maybe some certifications). Not everyone will agree with you but it's your life and your decision to make.

you were just lucky

 

[godreborn]

am I the only one who at first saw the word "verge" and thought this thread was about axiom verge?

anyway, dropping out is probably something you'll regret later on down the road. I'd suggest you buck up and stay in school especially considering what your goal is.

 

[the_randomizer]

and get hitted by them, hell no XD

Not if you do it from a distance, you shouldn't have to put up with that. If they treat you badly, you have every right to treat them badly back. Or just flip them off with your middle fingers as you walk by.

 

[tatripp]

Yes I am from and currently living in Mexico.
I don't want to be this edgy, but, I didn't got my Diploma because i Had troubles with three teachers.
This will sound all made up, but here I go:

-My Chemistry teacher didn't allowed me to present my tests. He was an asshole with me. He always humiliated me for not talking with anyone, even though I had at least 7 girlfriends who I was with all the 4 semesters we were together. Besides I Had some male friends too. But fucking idiot. He always made everyone laugh at me in the classes. I honestly didn't cared about it as I was used to be THAT GUY who's always quiet, with good grades that everyone makes fun of for being a "nerd"
Then I won a Literature Contest held Nationally by my school and this asshole in class said things like: "Oh I just cant believe a guy like you won. Oh someone else deserved to win. Look at you, weird, quiet, with headphones all the time, You're nothing and this won't make you better"
I felt all my class mates looking at me at that moment.
-My English teacher was her daughter. I know fluent English since I was 11. And my teacher wasn't. So I was always reminding her words that she couldn't remember, or correcting her for her bad translations. Once she told me: "I want you to shut up in my classes. You've proven you're far more advanced than your room mates, so shut up"
-My Biology teacher was the Spouse of my Chemistry teacher and the mom of my English teacher: She was nice with me. She was the kind of teacher that speaks loud and screams when no one listened to her. Once she helped me with my grades, because she told me that it was unfair for me to fail my grades for missing classes. The fact I missed classes was due to health problems, serious ones.

Thanks to my fucking Chemistry teacher, I couldn't get my diploma. He gave me a "W", a "W" in the Highschool I went meant that I was so bad at that Class (chemistry) that I had to repeat the whole semester thanks to that failed class.
Of course, we spoke with the director, and he did nothing.
At that time my family and I had financial problems, so bad that we had to sell everything in our house, we almost got evicted, and we didn't ate but twice per week, sometimes once per week.
I couldn't pay to repeat the semester thanks to that asshole.
My health problems got stronger (heart disease) for not eating, and that put me in bed for months.
Then I tried to repeat the semester once we were a little better and I found out that I got kicked out from school. Literally, I wasn't registered there anymore. My grades became un existent. So I had to repeat Highschool yet again.
Of course, I fucking didn't. Got to work on my own, learnt Japanese, French, a bit of Portuguese, Italian, Russian and German.

This is exactly what I want to avoid with my children. I want them to be safe from wasting time, money, and in my case, waste and loss my health thanks to an asshole who thought it'd be funny to make fun of me.

That school sounds horrible. I don't think there is anything wrong with sending your kids to school. Just know what type of school you are sending them to if you are going to do it. Thanks for the story.

 

[BlueFox gui]

Not if you do it from a distance, you shouldn't have to put up with that. If they treat you badly, you have every right to treat them badly back. Or just flip them off with your middle fingers as you walk by.

thats not how it works lol, it would be funny see you saying that to them, my mom would just tell me to shut up and hit me more LOL

 

[tatripp]

What if I already am socially awkward?
I've heard homeschooling is basically you studying by yourself at home, which sounds nice at first, but you have to write a test every half a semester from every subject, which sounds pretty difficult and scary to me.

There are different types. Some can be a diploma factory where you learn absolutely nothing. This is usually done by bad kids. Then there is the homeschooling that some parents do because they think that they can do a better job than the schools or they want to shield them from the evils of the world. Everyone who does this type of homeschooling is relatively smart, but nearly everyone who does this type of homeschooling for their entire schooling is extremely socially awkward. I'm not talking about that quiet kid in class type of socially awkward either. I'm talking about climbing trees in the park barefoot as an adult socially awkward or singing aloud in inappropriate places socially awkward or even eating a raw steak socially awkward. Basically they have no shame because, in trying to protect them, their parents smothered them. Homeschooling can be great, but homeschooling does not socialize kids.

 

[Quantumcat]

There are different types. Some can be a diploma factory where you learn absolutely nothing. This is usually done by bad kids. Then there is the homeschooling that some parents do because they think that they can do a better job than the schools or they want to shield them from the evils of the world. Everyone who does this type of homeschooling is relatively smart, but nearly everyone who does this type of homeschooling for their entire schooling is extremely socially awkward. I'm not talking about that quiet kid in class type of socially awkward either. I'm talking about climbing trees in the park barefoot as an adult socially awkward or singing aloud in inappropriate places socially awkward or even eating a raw steak socially awkward. Basically they have no shame because, in trying to protect them, their parents smothered them. Homeschooling can be great, but homeschooling does not socialize kids.

Yeah I would never home school my kids. I've only known three home schooled people and all three were Weird with a capital W. I'd rather my kids learn to function in society.

 

[WeedZ]

I dropped out when I was 16 and earned my GED, went through college, and now work in IT.

I do game development, web development and design, and learned several different programming languages as a hobby. Sometimes rom hack on the side. I think high school diplomas are overrated. It's better to focus on learning exactly what you want to learn, and get what you need in order to pursue your career (in this case a GED, then maybe some certifications). Not everyone will agree with you but it's your life and your decision to make.

The degree you get and the school you go to makes a huge difference. I used to do "IT" for the public school system years ago with a friend of mine. I had an associates from a community college here and my buddy, who still does it, has a bachelor's from NM state. I started at around 16hr. My friend started at, I think, 26 and now makes around 30.

Unless your running your own business, game and web development are deluded fields. You can do ok in the "tech industry" with just a ged, but ok is as good as it gets. If you've been lucky enough to find a niche and make a career out of it, then youre part of a lucky few. Telling other people to follow your path still isn't good advice.

 

[Derek1199]

You should stay because college comes next.

 

[GalladeGuy]

Just to the bare minimum amount of work required to graduate, then leave and never look back. You will have a very hard time finding any decent jobs without a high school degree, especially in IT.