Hello RikerR5: Well... it's been many years since the Skeezyks was in school! But way back when I was, I was a lot like you. I guess I was fortunate, in a sense, that I went to schools where they really didn't care if you learned anything or not. As long as you could skin by, they just passed you along. And that's what I did... just enough to squeak by...

I've carried around a lot of depression & anxiety throughout my life, although I guess I wasn't consciously aware of it when I was young. Plus I was bullied both verbally & physically throughout high school. So that certainly didn't help either. Looking back, I think that my depression & anxiety were probably the reasons I lacked any-&-all motivation to do anything more than was absolutely necessary. Perhaps something of that sort is going on with you too? If there is a counselor or trusted teacher at school you could confide in, perhaps that might be a place to start with regard to figuring out what is going on with you & what to do about it. The thing is, you're establishing patterns now that may well follow you into adulthood. So dealing with the problems you're having now may help you to prevent these problems from troubling you once you enter the adult world.