Should I drop from diploma to certificates?

purplecarrots
Thu, 07 Jan 2016 19:20:22 +0000

I am currently a senior in HS. I’m already a semester into the school year and am only 5 months away from graduation. But I am facing a major problem. I finally realized that IB is not for me.
Joining IB was never my main concern. I actually never thought I’d join until the very last day that I could sign up. A lot of my peers and teachers pushed me to join. All of my friends really wanted to have the IB diploma. So I did it. I signed up for what could possibly be my biggest high school regret.
My school is quite inexperienced with IB, and most of the teachers are very new to the program. My school is also not the best school in the world because I have changed teachers half-way through the year multiple times. This really hurt my path in IB, and put a lot of strain on me than it should. Students in the IB program are constantly set back due to the teacher switching, and the lack of experience in the teachers lead to big piles of work being dumped on us in the very last minutes. I’ve never been good at time management, and dealing with all of this has made me extremely depressed and stressed out.
I’ve applied to colleges already, but I am 100% sure that I am going to community college first due to personal reasons. Knowing this, I feel like IB is becoming more and more useless to me as time goes on, and is only harming my health instead of helping me in any way.
It’s too late now for me to change my classes, but I plan on cutting TOK, CAS, and EE out of my schedule completely and just take my IB classes without them. Is that a wise decision to make? I’ve had many teachers tell me that I should stick with it till the end, but I am really starting to lose hope here. What do you guys suggest I should do?