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Question #1:

To late to fix my life?

I am a 14 year old girl and have depression. My parents got divorced years ago and it seemed almost like they liked when I knew everything going on. When they got divorced I started doing bad in school and I was getting picked on worse by the other students and teachers. I eventually left the school to do homeschooling and it went good for a while. Back then I was in 7th grade and since then one of my parents has lost ALL of the information for my homeschooling teacher, so therefor haven't checked in or done much work. I have done some on my own, but not much. I was forced to start going to a therapist because of their brake up and am almost able to stop going. I don't have anyone to talk to, and don't even tell my therapist anything personal. I have a couple best friends and they don't even know the half of it. My dad had been trying REALLY hard to make me go back to my old public school, but can't really stand a chance doing that since my friend shot himself in the cafeteria. I have no idea what to do. No idea what to do about school, or my life.
I can't really tell my therapist anything because somehow my parents "find out" everything I say, but she swears she would never tell. Also, I (to put it mildly) was harassed in the most horrible ways for years and years and almost nobody knows. I have tried speaking to my best friend but she even admits that she tells her mother EVERYTHING I tell her that is personal. Even when she swears she wouldn't. It's just hard to trust anyone. Thanks to all of the people that answered though.

Question #2:

Homeschooling vs Private School?

MY MOM SAYS THAT I SHOULD GO TO A HOMESCHOOL INSTEAD OF A PRIVATE SCHOOL, BUT WHY!! SHE SAYS IT BECAUSE OF BULLYING BUT I WANT TO GO TO A PRIVATE SCHOOL, TELL HER WHICH ONE IS BETTER!

Question #3:

Thinking about going to Public School next year?

Alright, here's the deal. I'm thirteen, and virtual schooling right now. I've been told I'm a very sociable person, despite most homeschooling kids who are very awkward and shy. I'm in seventh grade, and I kind of want to go to public school in eighth grade before high school.

I don't have many concerns, I know how to act around bullies and cliques. The reason I'm kind of hesitant to is kind of idiotic, but nonetheless it's a reason. If I go to public school... I want to make a scene. I want to show people just because I was home schooled I can fit into their little "society". Before you judge, I went to public school for sixth grade. I had to drop out due to intense stress problems. My mother also died within two months of Lung Cancer, so that was another reason I didn't go back sooner.

My friend Lydia goes to public school, and apparently the kids still talk about me. According to them, if I step out of my little virtual schooling, I will be completely pulverized by the "Real World". I'm kind of peeved, because these are the same kids who attempted to pick on me in sixth. I want to go back to school with a bang, you know? Show them I can fare better than any one of them could. Basically, I want to make them completely awestruck. Yeah, yeah, I know. "You shouldn't be trying to do this!" "Revenge isn't the way!" - Maybe, but revenge is so sweet... Anyway, do any of you have any tips on how I can totally show them off if I do decide to go back to public school? For the record, I don't really want to change who I am, per say. I enjoy my cute/dark style and my sarcastic personality. I just want to make them completely furious. Especially this one girl, Maddie. She's been trying to show me up since fourth grade just because I was apparently more likeable and I had self-confidence.

I know this is once again, idiotic. But if any of you have any ideas at all, please tell me.
Dude, I totally have to thank you. xD

Question #4:

What is it that people like Fundies and Santorum have against Public Schooling?

I have friends who were homeschooled and they're intelligent and friendly, they have nothing against public schooling as I don't have anything against homeschooling.

But why is that the religious fundamentalists like Rick Santorum (Frothy) have against public schools?

So far he has a problem with women (even in the military), with gays, feminism and etc. What am I missing?

Question #5:

Ugly ducking to attractive?

I was bullied at school and people often made fun of me because of my looks. I had horrible skin(severe acne,severe scarring), i was very thin, i just looked bad and was told i was ugly almost everyday at school. I went to highschool one year and then decided to join homeschooling because i couldn't take the ridicule..So three years go by and i am now a senior & my appearance changed drastically. My skin is clear, im still thin but not as thin, my features changed alot, and my skin lightened drastically because i didn't get out of the house as much due to homeschooling.

When people see me from my past they cannot recognize me. If i do introduce myself i always get "Oh no you cant be her, she was so ugly" or "wow you look so different did you get plastic surgery" and even " did you bleach your skin like Michael Jackson" When the truth is i have got nothing done! I cant stand to here comments like this and it makes me feel so insecure about myself. They bring up old wounds and i am now scared to introduce my self because i am afraid what they will say and who they will say it to. I am scared to run into old classmates at the local community college i plan to attend because i know what kind of ignorant comments people will say to me.

*Please help! How can i deal with these comments that are being said? I feel like people can never leave me alone and let me be. Whether i am attractive or not hurtful things are always said to me.

Question #6:

Please help im depressed because of my parents?

Im 16, i do homeschooling. I got really behind but i have good grades. Seriously im a good kid i never have gotten into any trouble or anything, just this one time i slipped and im behind in school. So now i cant even talk to my parents without them starting scream at me about school. This past week i havent done anything. Literally, nothing but school cause im actually scared of my parents now.They wont let me buy anything for fun now either. My mom promised she would take me out tonight when she got home from work. I was so happy when she got home i ran over and asked about going shopping together and she said "Just leave, i said just go the **** away" Then i did leave and i came back later and asked where the band-aids are cause my toe was bleeding (and she didnt give a sh*t) and she said "they are right here like they always are, are you that f*cking stupid" I start crying upstairs and she hears me and she just started calling me a baby and so did my dad. They never used to be like this. Im really depressed and they dont care they just say im stupid and lazy. PLEASE HELP what do i do i wanna run away tonight

Question #7:

Feeling sad, lonely, and suicidal.?

Well, I've finally fallen to the point where I had to take to the internet about my depression, so here it is. I really don't know what to do at this point. I'm currently homeschooling and am in the 10th grade (I turn 17 in April) and have absolutely no friends. I've tried reconnecting with old Facebook friends, and actually have talked to maybe 5 of them from my junior high days, but it just seems as though they don't want to talk. I know some think people are depressed, because they do it to themselves. I'm not, I'm the complete opposite, I try so hard to be normal and fit in and make friends but I'm always getting rejected. I don't know what I'm left to do! I sometimes find myself talking to people on the internet, and I met one girl and for the longest time she seemed like she was the only person who cared but now, I can't tell anymore. We used to talk each and everyday, but she's busy with school and I only talk to her maybe twice a week now if that much. I get anxiety over thinking about her...I think she's not going to come back ever, and if she were to leave I'd probably be miserable. I just love her so much and she's my best friend and only friend. I'm currently seeing a therapist and taking Zoloft, but I just can't seem to shake this depression even with my trying. Also, I'm trying to get a job to meet people, and take my mind off things, but it's hard to find any work. It just feels like the entire world has stopped caring more-so these past few days then ever and I know suicide may be the easy way out, but it's a pleasant though knowing I'll be ridden of this pain. Sorry that this is so long, but if you got to this point and read the whole thing... thank you so much. Really.
As for that girl, I just sometimes feel do dependent on her to make me feel better. She always does, but I feel my depression is pushing her away at times.

Question #8:

I need to get away from everything but how??? Please help?

Firstly I absolutely hate school, I have hated ever since I was a little girl. I've started a new school and I don't like it I just want to be free. I'm smart and I learn quick so I think school is a waste of my time and it's like a prison to me. I need to get away. I want to travel the world. I have been feeling like this for soo long it's overwhelming and I can't keep pushing it aside until I crumble and breakdown one day. I hate school but my mum says I need to finish this year but I don't think I can, if I push myself I MIT do something stupid. I just want to move on with my life and do something I actually care about. I am a strong willed girl but school is my krypton it's and I need to get away from it. Homeschooling is fine with me I can do that and I can socialize so that's no problem but school is. Please help me ASAP. Thanx

Question #9:

Please help, what should I do to calm from this situation?

Ok. I'm homeschooled, and my online school instructions SUCK. I do not understand them I need my instructor to explain them for me, and if a miracle happened and caused her to call back or answer it would happen only once every two weeks or more, so sometimes I stay days and days without doing any work which drives me crazy, because I am on my nerves the whole time because I know all this time is getting wasted and I need to finish this course and three other ones within two months and I'm only 30% finished with it and i've started since 3 months.

My Mom really wants me to finish, and it would devastate me if I wasn't able to, because then I'm gonna have to wait another year to enter college. I'm in homeschooling cuz I have to finish early and so far i am 2 years ahead, but if I don;t finish this crap in time I would only be one year ahead. i could be fine with it, but my Mom's expectations are what are pressuring me...I am expected to enter college at 16, and instead I might at 17-18.

What devastates me SO MUCH, is that I know that it could be my fault that I'm slacking that would get me to not enter college as early as expected. It IS tough doing all this work at home on your own and staying on pace, but still I am the one responsible. Whenever I think of the fact that there are days that are getting wasted right in front of me, and I'm not gonna catch up I just break down.

I NEVER get to just sit and chill because I always know I have work I need to finish. I NEVER get to do what I want, because whenever I'm doing anything its always in a rush to go do work, and at the end I don;t do any work because its either in-accurate instructions or other crap. I am ALWAYS in a rush. CONSTANTLY. I'm really tired of all this crap.

It's affecting me so much I'm having stomach issues, I vomited twice yesterday, and the thing is that I can't just say "Man, let go and just chill nothing is worst being that stressed out" Because that IS what stresses me out! I feel SO guilty whenever I'm chilling, or just sitting there....even if I'm sleeping. I really need advice. I don;t want to feel this way no more.

Thanks.

Question #10:

What are the California state laws on homeschooling?

Just wondering, Im homeschooling and need to know these because im not joining any groups just me and my friend sharing ideas on what to teach our children. We are not under charter schools or private schools we are doing it on our own but there are many of us so i think its legal, right?

Question #11:

How can I calm down from this situation I'm in?

Question #12:

GED or home school? I need your help.?

I'll start at the beginning.
In middle school I was in a high school credit/honors STEM program, I didn't much care about my grades, and I struggled with yet undiagnosed metal disorders, so though I was capable of doing the work, my grades were low for the most part.
Despite this, I was accepted into the IB program at a local high school. I tried to kill myself the first week of school. I missed a ton of days, was socially withdrawn and isolated and ending up withdrawing before the first nine weeks was over, receiving "incomplete" for all my grades. After this, it was decided that I would enroll in a less stressing program at a different high school. However, I got a computer and the plan changed to doing online classes with FLVS. I was horrid at it. It was terribly hard for me to keep focus on the computer, and some of the assignments were absolutely ridiculous. So I stopped doing anything productive at all in my life. I gained twenty pounds and spent most of my time sleeping, eating, or just wasting my time on the internet. I disgusted myself, I hated the feeling that I wasn't normal.
I had these feelings despite being on antidepressants. I missed a psychiatrist appointment, and was without my pills for the net three months. The feelings of not being normal continued to grow. I insisted on enrolling in Plant again. I insisted that I could do it this time, be normal, get good grades, socialize. But I couldn't. I was extremely shy, and socially awkward. I sat by myself at lunch for 4 and a half weeks. I was scrapping by on C, D and F grades, talking to only a handful of people. Sometimes almost having panic attacks at lunch. So again I withdrew.
Fast-forward to now. Homeschooling on workbooks and books from the library. My mom doesn't really like it. She doesn't understand.
I have a couple of options, and this is where you guys come in. I need your help and advice.
I can continue homeschooling, eventually make my own diploma and transcript, and hope to be accepted to either University of Tampa, or USF.
OR.
I can get my GED, get an associates degree at HCC, and then transfer to either of those schools.
I don't know what to do.
I like the GED plan, I was very positive about it, but my Yale educated (albeit bi-polar, and sometimes a drunk, who with his education, has become a waiter) says that an associate degree (in aquaculture) from HCC would be the equivalent to marine biology 101 at any real college. He says I wont know anything, and wont be prepared come time when I enroll In a higher university.

What should I do?
I don't know anyone to ask.
Thank you for you help.

Question #13:

I sleep all day and stay up all night?

I've had chronic insomnia for the past four years. I had to leave my High School (I'm 16) and do homeschooling in order to finish school, because I would become exhausted after staying up all night, then being forced to stay up all day for school. I do my schoolwork at night, now.

Is this a bad thing? Is it bad for me? My parents keep saying so, but they're yet to come up with any reasons that it'd be bad to be "nocturnal" - I've tried pretty much everything to sleep at night and stay up in the day, but it doesn't work. I do well at school and speak to my friends at night, and my life is pretty much not all that affected by it. I usually go the bed at 5am in the morning and wake up about 6pm at night, so I still see my family and stuff.

So, basically, my question is: What are the longterm effects of staying up all night and sleeping all day - if there are any? Thanks!

Question #14:

I need to distance myself from my parents?:(?

My mom and dad have always hurt me emotionally. When I was younger I didn't know how to handle it so I blocked off all my emotions. I literally didn't feel anything. They would call me stupid and I would just be numb. Kids at school called me fat and ugly and again just numb. (I was 10) and now that I am 13 I started cutting. I started cause I needed to feel something. Anything! But I have stopped and my parents are getting me therapy. I'm sitting in my bathroom crying right now and I have been thinking this for a while. My parents really do have a lot of blame in my development. I always told myself it was my fualt and I would punish myself by cutting my legs up. But now I am starting to realize that It isn't my fault! My parents are the ones that started homeschooling me and forcing me into isolation. My parents are the ones that never have one decent conversation with me. They always bring up how my grades suck and how I need to study and stop being such a drama queen. Then they apologize when I run into my bathroom and cry. I believe them and talk to them again for days until the pattern repeats and I cry again. Each time it hurts me more and more. I need to stop letting them back in. I need to distance myself from them and my three awful brothers that torment me. I can't do this yo-yo anymore. I need to keep to myself and stop believing that they love me. I need to get away from them all. Tell me how

Question #15:

Good Online Animation Schools?

First: If you are here to earn points a simple greeting - i.e. "hi", "hello", "howdy", etc. - will suffice.

For those of you who can answer me:

I am looking to learn about animation. I have been considering the online certificate courses offered through Academy of Art in SF as well as the full degree program at Art Institute of Pittsburgh online. If anyone has taken any of these courses, how were they? If you have taken online courses at Academy of Art, did you apply these to a degree later on? Was it worth it? Why or why not?

Also, are there any other good sources online? Or, which are your favorite sources for animation information online? Books? Magazines? Anything else?

I am not necessarily looking for a career in animation right now, nor in anything else - I am looking to "broaden my horizons". If I choose to make a career of it, it will be many years in the future. I make a decent profit from freelance work in painting and sewing and am homeschooling my kids. I am not stating this to open up comments on my personal life, only so that others will be able to give me more accurate information regarding what I am truly interested in.

I would be able to cover the costs of a formal education, and that is the direction I am leaning in at the moment.

I also already have an accredited degree, could my GE classes be applied to either of these schools?

Question #16:

How to convince my parents to homeschool me?

So i like the idea of homeschooling. its just hard to explain it from the top of my head because i have memory and focus issues. so im making a powerpoint to present to my parents. they are just on the edge of letting me doing it just almost there. theyve thought why they want me to and theyre not against it at all. but they want to know why -I- want to. my mom is totally for it but my dad needs me to tell him some stuff about it because he wants to be proved that i can do this. so i already have alot of stuff, but i need to add to it.email me at ketchupsummer@yahoo.com (yes i know weird user haha)

Question #17:

How can i stop my parents from homeschooling me?

My parents want to take me out of school and homeschool me. Is there anything i can do to stop them from doing this? please help!!

Question #18:

will homeschooling help me graduate early?

I'm a freshman in high school and want to graduate in my junior year.I'm a straight A student (but i'm failing algebra because they placed me in an advanced class and i have god awful teacher)I don't feel that im being challenged at all, and cannot take any AP classes for two years.I have never liked public school(i like keeping to myself)but was homeschooled a semester in 7th grade and didn't like it because my parents got me these workbooks(that my younger brother has,hes homeschooled)that were just wayy too easy and i didnt like that it was centered in religion.so,basically,i didnt do them ans when i went back to school i had to take a test and scored very high(12 grade in english )without learning anything at all.i am now more motivated and love learning (i want to go to a university and study in anthropology)but do not want to continue high school for 3 more years(ill be 18 in 2 years and will probably drop out asap if i cant graduate before then)

Question #19:

Considering homeschooling my daughter,help?

My family is thinking of moving,it would mean leaving the current zone in which my kids attend school-they would not transfer my daughter and I do not want her attending the school they would force her to.I am thinking of the whole homeschool option,but have no clue where to even begin.Do you have to be rich? Do you have to notify the school system of your decision,how do you grade work? and especially how would you go about testing such statewide standardized tests and sats or acts? any advice welcome.Thanks

Question #20:

What do i do? Please help ?

I was in a car accident almost a year ago that completely messed up my life. I had to be homeschooled but homeschooling is just not for me. I get so distracted and never do my work. Its online by the way. If i go back to school im gonna have to start the 9th grade all over again but the school i was going to is SO ghetto and i can't learn anything there. So i don't wanna do that. Should i just drop out and wait till im 16 so i can get my GED? If there's a better option please tell me because i honestly dont know what to do.

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