High school career ruined.

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>Hello all. I’ve posted here before but this time I’m trying to be a bit modest because of some crazy stuff I went through recently.</p>

<p>Best way to put it, I’ve had an extremely horrible time since starting high school, through and through and still going through a lot of trauma and trouble. My 9th grade was practically all F’s and half of 10th grade was above a 3.0 gpa, and the other half was the same as 9th grade. After which during this summer I had my whole life completely turned upside down. For privacy, I will just say it involved being cut off from the outside world, a kidnapping, and being held hostage. No lie, and legally this isn’t something that would be put on the news (a whole of it is/was just brushed under the rug). They’re not just buzz words.</p>

<p>Much of that continued until my 11th grade (right now) and thankfully, the situation outside of school improved in that parts of my life restored to how they were before the trauma in that I’m home now safe and sound. Bad part is the baggage + trauma + bad high school stats. And that I’m doing even worse this semester than I was in 9th grade. To top it all off, the trauma included forcing me to change schools 20 miles from the school and/or community I was going to for my whole life essentially, and I still go there sadly, but when the semester ends, I will have to switch schools again to wherever the nearest school is to my current location.</p>

<p>I’ve applied for jobs but I have nothing to backup any skills so I get rejected, and any EC’s require much time and resources that I was deprived of during the trauma, and cannot allocate efficiently in the current situation (not exactly well off).</p>

<p>If anyone would like to help me more in-depth just PM me and I will explain it all because this is a bit vague. Otherwise, I just want to know if university is an option for me by a miracles chance. All I am sure is that high school is ruined through and through even if I finish senior year due to my credits not being enough for even a diploma, let alone to apply to a university. I’m thought of home schooling myself and catching up and doing extra AP classes myself online (to boost GPA) and self-studying the tests, at least to have a last chance at having an upward trend, but due to my ‘situation’ it would be suicide for me to do that because of the perpetrators of the trauma making threats against me. My only option is just going to a de-facto school in my area and ‘going with the flow’ (more like against it) and even if I were to pass everything they give me with flying colors, all the technicalities prevent it from being useful in anyway.</p>

<p>My subsequent option would be to just go to community college and work my way up from there to improve my life, but to me that represents too much of an unknown situation because I can’t predict what else might happen to me when I try to have a fresh start that way. </p>

<p>I’ve been stressing over this for so many months now it’s unhealthy. It’s such an unusual and complicated situation, and there are more layers than I can possibly put into this thread. I just really need some guidance as I am not getting any right now. Please ■■■■■■ and judgmental people stay away, I need realistic advice.</p>

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<p>Go to finish high school. Take a year off if need be, for psychological reasons. Try to put yourself in a safer environment if possible. Get counseling as well. Just spend a year improving your health and environment. Go to community college and build your life from there. Study hard and possibly transfer to a university. Just know that your life isn’t over. There are several ways you can still succeed.</p>

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<p>I’m in a very safe environment now, I’m home where I belong. But I can’t leave high school…I can’t do anything other than public high school in a brick and mortar school. I have to attend school each day and currently get up while it’s still dark in the morning just to reach the current school I go to, on time. I don’t have an option of even dropping out, getting a GED (or CHSPE, since I am in California), and going straight to community college. Basically anything that doesn’t satisfy mandatory attendance laws for minors (and I keep getting told going to community college doesn’t count). This even includes online public school because there is no way to ‘gauge’ my attendance, or so I’ve been told, and public/charter independent study schools. Alternative schools are mainly for behavioral problem kids (which I am completely opposite to so I wouldn’t qualify) in my area, with huge waiting lists. Private schools very very rarely accept kids this late (11th grade) and obviously are expensive.</p>

<p>I’m not trying to be negative, just laying things out.</p>

<p>I’m not against of finishing high school at the least at adult school, but that’s thinking after the fact and I would rather not sit around and wait for something to happen. I’d rather get to fixing things asap.</p>

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<p>Ask this in parents forum. None of us on HSL can give you good advice.</p>

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<p>You have many options.</p>

<p>If you don’t think you’ll have enough credits, find out about taking more than one course for a certain subject (I’m taking two history courses this year and took two science courses last year) or finishing courses over the summer.</p>

<p>Any option, though, will require work on your part.</p>

<p>I’m so glad to hear you’re doing well though. After high school, if you don’t feel confident about a four-year, then go to a community college and transfer. Many, many people do this, and it’s far less expensive. Plus, high school will not be considered. :)</p>