I think you missed the part where I said my home room teacher doesn’t assign my work nor does she grade anything. She just makes sure I completed a lesson.
I also said that I worked ahead of schedule at I didn’t have work due that very day because I was working on things due in December.
My probation is like regular schools home room: they take attendance and give you the opportunity to catch up on assignments. However since it’s online school, you have to complete 1 assignment in 3 hours. I know the 12:01 incident is my fault but is it necessary to be that strict. All throughout school they say college is so strict and professors won’t be lenient yet my college friends say otherwise. I’m not saying all professors are lenient, I know some are strict and won’t take my work.
The point I’m trying to make is she is unnecessarily strict. And okay so let’s say I don’t argue that point, I still have arguments that say she should not be marking me absent if the state guidelines say I should not be absent. Each student is granted time to leave for emergencies so if I tell you I have an emergency you are to honor the codes and mark me excused. She didn’t do that.
And as I’ve stated countless times, they do not respond to any emails. So emailing or calling her is pointless.
My mother isn’t one to make excuses for me and she very well hold me accountable for my actions and reminds me that I’m an adult (although yes she won’t leave me home alone. But then again would you leave a 17 year old alone and say the apartment catches on fire or someone breaks in and the police ask why my parents aren’t home. Idk what you guys do with your kids but my parents aren’t going to leave me alone like that.) Even she thinks that they are very contradictive and have lots of issues. And it’s not like I’m the only student dealing with these issues. We had a school wide attendance meeting a couple weeks ago and the number of students who were facing expulsion was almost 90! 90 students in academic probation face being expelled because of attendance problems and no one sees a problem with that except for parents and students. 90 students and their parents are complaining about the staffs communication and saying they are wrongfully marked absent over simple things.
As someone stated earlier, you don’t know what it’s like to be a student and face the issues I’m facing. And as I said before there are a lot of details I haven’t shared that would prove my point of their incompetence but I’d be here forever getting on you guys nerves with my “excuses”.
@Gatormama OP is not at any school right now. Transcripts are one thing and completion is another. That could be the first fire to put out, attending a school.
You definitely had some good ideas there though. Especially going in person to sort this out.
Mom can refuse/fail to fill out annual FAFSA or Profile forms, or not provide information about insurance, etc. And if they provide any financial support , they can withhold it. Sadly they can disrupt things unless a student is truly independent and has good boundaries.
I had the business card of a counselor from Connections Academy who I met at a conference a year ago, but can’t put my finger on it at the moment. Not sure they are still affiliated with Connections this year. Regardless, the OP has a number of challenges but agree, needs to take ownership of the testing registration process and the challenges. Having to get up before 10 am, even if on cold meds, should be manageable.
I’m going to contact college board tomorrow to try to recover my scores. For now it’s either fight with them and hope they let me back in or home school.
Also im pretty sure everyone on this thread has called out sick, either from work or school. Or from a family emergency so I’m not understanding the hypocrisy and criticism.
@4MyKidz What do you mean mean does OP have a choice in the matter? What other solution does OP have now but independently registering on College Board and signing up for the exam. This is really the easiest part of this whole thing.
Everyone has anxiety. That is quite a serious issue with mom not providing the necessary support so that her kid can attend high school not even college.
You’re working to provide for your family at 17 but cannot stay home to attend school is detailing your education. You have to be able to be home for your school. Have a family member stay with you. At 17, the police aren’t going to question why your mom isn’t home.
I think we’re all really frustrated in your behalf because your schooling has not come first and it needed to.
@gearmom You are making alot of assumptions in your posts. The counselors do not walk around asking students, “Would you prefer bulk registration or would you like to create your own college board account and register yourself?” Unfortunately, the school just does the bulk registration, then the students walk into school on a regular school day and are gicen the PSAT or the SAT. So when I say the student did not have a choice in the matter. The student was not given a choice.
Yes, the student coukd go ahead and independently register after the fact. However, based on the experiences of my current high school students, collegeboard will not be able to link the old tests with the new account. Collegeboard couldn’t even find the students in their databases and were unable to answer questions over the phone. Bulk registrations do not help students at all. I’m hoping the OP has more luck in getting answers. It is a way for the school counselors to quickly and easily register whole classes of students and administer the tests in the easiest manner possible. As I said before it is a hot mess.
Also, I disagree with the “Everyone has anxiety” comment. Seriously? Should the OP just get over it? We don’t know anything about the OP’s struggles with anxiety. Definitely insensitive.
One funeral or 2 days of being sick is acceptable. Enough to cause a problem at two different schools is missing too much school.
Yes, when my kids were in high school at ages 13-17 they were able to stay alone for the day. One daughter started college at 17 so she was unsupervised 24/7, but she always went to class.
You should be able to stay home for one day to work on schoolwork. If you need supervision, you could stay with a friend or neighbor. Or you should go to a different school, one that allows flexibility. There are a lot of schools that do. Many young athletes attend virtual schools on their own schedules.
Wait a second. What online school are you using? Either you are using GA virtual school or your respective county’s online school. However, I believe you would be in the state program as you are not enrolled in your local high school. Do you even know the names of the courses you are taking? In Ga virtual school you would know your grade in each class at any given moment. Unrealistic you do not know your grades. No child in school can at a whim miss weeks of school because grandma is sick. Its called not being a parent. A parents job is to make sure you are in school. I would be shocked your school does not have a graduation coach as that is pretty typical in Georgia. You mentioned you had failed classes earlier in this thread. How on earth do you expect to get into MIT when you have failed class and cannot reliably attend school for only three hours a day? None of this adds up. GA comes down hard on truancy. And no, a note from mom is not adequte after a certain point.
@4MyKidz Everyone has anxiety meaning that people learn to deal with it. I was just speaking with a doctor who said anxiety is rampant with young people. You can’t use it to explain away lack of performance for school. For goodness sakes MIT is like drinking from a fire hose. That school not even be considered. OP is not walking into a school. OP is online. I would consider the old test scores lost and sign up NOW independently. Why wouldn’t you do that? If OP lucks out and gets access to the old scores great. But OP needs to be in control of at least one score.
OP was in probation. I have no idea how time criticalness didn’t factor in. There was NO wiggle room. And one minute DOES mean you can fail in college. This is a pattern of not meeting basic standards.
@gearmom Regarding the anxiety comment…I’m not sure that is what you meant or that the OP would understand that is how you meant it. I can’t imagine what the OP is feeling after reading through this thread. Whom I hope is smart and leaves this thread to its own devices. Perhaps I am just overly sensitive as I work with students just like the OP and can empathize with the choices families and students are forced to make. It is not black and white for everyone…there is alot of gray area that has to be waded through. Hope the OP got something from all this condemnation.
I can tell you didn’t bother reading because my school has been mentioned at least twice. I’m tired of repeating myself and trying to get people to understand because you’ll never fully understand. At this point I’m in need of a guidance counselor or someone who actually understand how schools work.
@4MyKidz There is a hard reality to life and that is just the way it is. I’m not sure how coddling helps in any way…OP was on academic probation and needed to very seriously be well within the lines. The hard consequences of not doing that is expulsion from high school from an online academy that does not communicate with you. So now test scores are not available due to the bulk thing, transcripts are not easy to come by, recommendations at this late date for a student that was expelled?? It is all serious and does not serve this student in any way to not force the spot light on these issues which have caused withdrawal from two schools with no high school diploma. I don’t fully blame the kid. I’m a bit shocked about the parents. OP needs the very simplest solution which is succeeding at a CC for a year then transferring. Life doesn’t get to be all gray when there is college debt and bills due. No one here wants OP to fail.
I read your other thread. In April you knew your GPA and it wasn’t good. With a sub 2.0 GPA, why are your parents permitting you to work 35 hours/week? Does your family need the money to pay the bills? If so, there needs to be some smart strategizing to make a high school education happen.
Not being a morning person isn’t an excuse for not getting yourself to school. I don’t understand why your parents chose an online program that required early logins for you as an alternative to public school when absences became a problem, or why they chose online at all if you have computer and network issues. However, if you need to work full-time to help pay the rent then your family may want to find a more flexible schooling choice. What you’re doing now isn’t working.
I understand that you don’t want to go to community college, but that’s the path both you and your parents set you on. Even that’s going to be a challenge if you don’t make some changes. You can’t just not do the work, or do it but not turn it in, or turn it in but too late to get credit. And you can’t miss class for every family emergency either. College professors won’t yell at you or give you reminders. They’ll hand you a syllabus that outlines the attendance policy and when you exceed the number of absences they allow they’ll start dropping letter grades or just outright fail you, and you’ll get to pay for the privilege.
I think your family needs to make your education a priority. If you can’t figure out how to meet the requirements for an online program, you need to choose another option. I understand that means more work for your parents and that it’s not going to be easy, but if you want to be able to go to college then you have to figure it out.
Ok so there are multiple online public schools in Georgia. You have probably been removed due to an excess of ten nonexcused absences. It should have been reported to your home local district. You need to call the guidance office at the public high school you reside within. Parental notes are not adequate once you hit ten days. You need to re-enroll in your local school or at min ask them about your options. However I dont think you will like their answers.
I’m used to the “just quit and get your GED and go to community college and transfer” responses. It’s still not going to stop me. I’m very persistent so I’m not going to give up that easily. I just think they don’t understand the online schooling and just go by their own knowledge. I know parents can be strict and get o their kids but some parents think they know what schools are about and what colleges what and are wrong. I’ve talked to a few teacher and tutors who say they’ve heard stories or have personally worked with students from GACA and it was a nightmare. They all say communication is terrible and they have issues where the school is not very professional.
I’m just really stressed and may wait until after the funeral to calm down and explore options and what not. Who knows, maybe I’ll update with good news. So thank you all and good night.
I didnt hit 10 and if i missed days i were to let my home room teacher know. Not a district. Idk where you got that information but ive explained that in the thread a million time.
You didnt read the thread either. I joined the online school because it was “flexible”. I was placed on academic probation for this semester and this semester only. My gpa changes every semester and I do not know what my current gpa is so I could through out a gpa i remember but it wouldnt be accurate and I’m already tired of this thread because it’s full of people trying to understand and making assumptions or people twisting words and ringing in outside information that has nothing to do with anything.
I discussed in my original post why i worked full time and what happened to my job. You should give it a read.
What person wants to willingly limit themselves. That’s what wrong with society, people see setbacks and obstacles and give up or force others to. Then people feel insecure and sorry for themselves. I never excused CC, I just said if all else fails. It’s my absolute last destination. Sheesh.
AND AGAIN, my education was a priority. How else did I complete 200 assignments from August 7th - October 10th and get all A’s if it wasn’t a priority to me. The only issue was the unnecessary live lesson. It just took away from the time I could have spent actually getting work done instead of contacting my teacher and explaining to her I couldn’t attend a pointless livelesson because my grandmother is having surgery and we nee to be there to care for her. I’m sorry you people are insensitive and probably don’t care that it’s important to me and my family that we be there for one another. But gosh darnit, if you say you are an online public school that goes by the guidelines of regular public school and gives students excused absences when need, freaking mean it!!