<p>Sometimes you have to be like a horse; put on your blinders and run your own race. </p>
<p>You can’t worry about other people who in your opinion are not motivated or are not doing anything. So what if your school has a low graduation rate? As long as you are one of them who are graduating, you have beat the odds. Right now until you straighten out your situation, you don’t have a lot of options and it is going to just be a matter of time before your house of cards collapses on you. Right now you don’t’ meet neither the Illinois or Florida state requirements regarding having a home school education (this is one of your biggest obstacles and is probably keeping you from receiving state aid, because you have no documentation).</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.isbe.state.il.us/HomeSchool/default.htm[/url]”>http://www.isbe.state.il.us/HomeSchool/default.htm</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://www.floridaschoolchoice.org/information/home_education/files/Home_Ed_FAQs.pdf[/url]”>http://www.floridaschoolchoice.org/information/home_education/files/Home_Ed_FAQs.pdf</a></p>
<p>You’ve got one year down, live on a few more days and it will be May 2014 before you know it. Use the year to finish your college course work and get the GED done before December 2013. This way you will have more freedom to make moves when the time comes.</p>
<p>At the end of the day, you will walk across the stage by your self and with the exception of your your administration it will be your name and yours alone on the degree.</p>
<p>Remember this;</p>
<p>A journey of 1,000 miles starts with a single step (you have already started taking those steps). </p>
<p>The race is not given to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to he that endures until the end. So pull your big girl panties up and do what you have to do to finish and get the associates, which along with a legit diploma will give you more options for your future.</p>
<p>all the best</p>