Hi, I am a Korean student living in middle east and go to international school. Well, most of schools here are international schools because immigrants take more than half of the population.
So, i went to take my report card today to school and got 1 absence without excuse. I told the teacher that I called school on the day I was absent and told them I would be absent, and now they told me that I should’ve brought an evidence like a prescription from the hospital but I was home because the hospital is too expensive to afford so I just took the medicine and slept at home. I was so worried about it because being absent with no reason is really unacceptable in Korea. (im thinking about attending college in South Korea, tho.)
Also, the school profile is really really damn important for college application because if I submit my report cards to Korean college, the college has no way to know how smart or stupid I am so they require school profile.
And my school doesn’t have any school profile. Most of students don’t care about their future and college so much so the school doesn’t care either.
i asked them if they can make one for me because it is extremely necessary for my future and they said they won’t make anything only for me, and they gave me the school handbook which includes greetings from principals, grading policy and school rules. I know this isn’t the school profile which Korean college require to be submitted because usually other expensive and awesome schools have really neat and nice profile that includes SAT average score from the students, list of colleges that students attend who graduated from our school and many other things to show the school levels.
The teacher kept saying that they’ve done this few times and sent around 5 students to US only with school handbook, not the proper profile. But I don’t care if they sent students to American or wherever, because this isn’t what I need for my future.
Me and my mom already went to the school and paid tuition fee for next academic year. (We paid the fee and asked about everything that is written up there.)
I can get it back before the school starts (now is vacation.) but I can’t find another school to go because good schools are already full of students and have no space for me to be in.
I came to this school because my friends are good and the school is cheap, but as I get old, I realize how stupid I was when i was choosing schools to go. I regret so much for coming to this school.
Seriously I was crying because my school doesn’t know how desperate I am about my future and they don’t give a single shit about it. They are busy making the school look nice from outside and they don’t care about education and students’ future.
I finally found my dream college and I can’t continue dreaming about my dream college because my school doesn’t support me with my future. I don’t know what the point is here, but I just have no one to tell this because my friends will say, “You can attend your dream school because you get good marks.” this isn’t true anyway. I get good marks because the school level is so low and people in my school don’t care about education, so my friends think I am smart which is so wrong.
Even though I take the money back, there is no school to accept me as I said.
I don’t know, I just feel like I have no future and want to cry so bad. My school doesn’t even have any ECs so the only thing I get from school is the report card. No certificate is given to students at all.
Well, thanks for reading this long story and hope you all have good days. Thx.