<p>Im in the same position as your daughter, if I cant get out of highschool im going to freak out! There really isnt anything left to learn in highschool after 10 grade honestly. My GPA and transcript s are, for lack of a better word, screwed because im homeschooled. I dont have anything to lose so im gettin a GED when I turn 16.</p>
<p>Honestly though she should stay in school if she wants to get in a good college. Im planning on going to a state university anyway so it doesn’t really matter for me, not that I would qualify for a private school before I enter community college anyway.</p>
<p>But tell her to take some APs,get a job, heck even volunteer. It looks great on a college application, also if possible she can take classes at community college and get credit hours under her belt.</p>
<p>I am a quiet 16 year old, too. I moved to Kansas just as I started high school. It was hard.
I tried debate and really liked it. I also met nice kids outside of school just by studying at Starbucks! Maybe she could try that. Now I volunteer at the library. I hope she feels better soon. </p>
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<p>Lol I’m a second semester sophomore too!! My life consists of academics and more academics and I get straight as too. I’m also starting to feel unmotivated because I feel like I just can’t think anymore with all of this. But I have a long term goal that keeps me going, and that’s being a vet. I want to get into a really good school so I know I can’t sacrifice my grades. I know it just seems like rinse and repeat but in the end it’s all worth it. Tell your daughter to develop a long term goal, ie where she wants to attend college or what she wants to be. And who cares about the clicks those people are annoying lol tell her to be friends with the nice smart kids! They’ll encourage her!</p>
<p>I don’t think ANY of these things are normal developmental issues. I have been around enough kids both out of school here, and around the world to know that they are the creations of artificial, anti-humane environments - just ones that we have become so inured to as to believe them "natural’. There is nothing “natural” about them at all.</p>
<p>Virtually every other culture is the history of the world saw this time in the life of young people as the time of visionquests, walkabout, bar mitzvahs, ritual seclusions, apprenticeships, one-to-one learning; the taking on of new names and ADULT responsibilities, under the guidance of older, more experienced adults, NEVER their own parents, and almost never in groups of people their own age.</p>
<p>We can make our kids conform if we choose - but it is a choice, and we don’t have to.</p>
<p>I find it surprising that so many parents don’t know their kids. Some parents feel they shouldn’t intrude kids’ privacy, even when their kids are seriously having mental health problem, depression, self hate, self hurting, even suicidal. I don’t understand that. For us, when our kid(s) are having apparent emotional and mental troubles, we would like to know what they were doing outside school, whom they befriend with, what their internet activities were. Knowing those can make amazing differences. Peer pressure and influences are crucially important at this age.</p>
<p>@ultimablade, 'There really isnt anything left to learn in highschool after 10 grade honestly." Actually, there’s quite a lot–AP classes, independent study, research, and just exploring things in the arts, another foreign language, etc. </p>
<p>“if I cant get out of highschool im going to freak out!” Sounds like you are ready to move on from homeschooling, which is not the same thing. Social interactions are usually very important to teens. What about going to high school?</p>
<p>Your daughter sounds like a brilliant young person. Given that she clearly is a high achiever and yet is unsatisfied by what is going on in her life, could she be suffering from depression? Some of the comments you have quoted from her suggest this. Ie “not seeing the point of things” On the other hand she could be just so brilliant that she needs a greater challenge than her school can provide. Either way it might be worthwhile having her talk to a professional. If for no other reason to try and help her come up with ways to broaden her horizons. </p>