@NorthernMom61 That sounds like an amazing idea. The biggest problem with that is that my school’s AP classes meet every day. So there’s no way I could get an internship and still take classes at my high school.
It turns out I have /more/ than enough credits I need to graduate (26 out of 22) but I’m short a 0.5 PE credit. Which is so frustrating. What I think I might do is take phys ed during summer school, graduate early, and then spend my improptu gap year taking MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and learning the same way I would if I got homeschooled.
The only problem is that my guidance counselor wouldn’t even let me take AP Biology instead of Physics because at our school juniors in the accelerated track take AP Bio, and take Physics their senior year. He said he never had a valedictorian who who took AP Bio their senior year. That’s the level of ridiculousness my school is on. I don’t know how in the name of heck I’m going to get the administration to let me, the first in my class, to graduate early (GASP) via summer school (GASP)??? Sigh.