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Old Sep 25, 2012, 02:56 PM
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I was supposed to graduate in 2012 but I was under so much stress being regular high school and also being in a vocational school that it literally made me sick. I'd be home or sent home 2 or 3 days a week, so I failed. I had already stayed back in 9th grade because I was depressed, I'd come home from school and sleep. Not doing my homework made me fail, I was still passing all my tests and quizzes with 80s or higher. I was making up some of my 9th grade credits by doing an online classes after school. I am to graduate in 2014 if I go to school but I haven't been yet this year. I am naturally smart and I can grasp things pretty quickly. I don't know if getting my GED would be the right thing or if I should get an actual diploma from an online high school. What are your opinions personal experience or not.

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Old Sep 26, 2012, 05:35 PM
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If you think you're ready you could get the GED and start community college, get an AA and then transfer to a four year program to finish up with a BA and then...
If you want to go the traditional route then an online HS would be best.
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Old Sep 27, 2012, 06:40 PM
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I don't know very much about online high schools. But I think the best thing to do would depend on what you were planning to do after you finished one or the other.

Were you planning to go to college afterwards? Or stop with your high school diploma? And if you were going to college, where were you planning to go?

For example, community colleges don't care whether or not you have a GED or a high school diploma - they accept everyone and give you a placement test to make sure you have the right level of education you need. They have a wide range of classes at beginners levels so what people may have missed out on in high school, they can complete at community college before taking a more challenging course.

However, a university might be more picky about having an actual high school diploma since they don't offer such a wide range of beginning classes. The GED only tests to see if you have a basic amount of knowledge - it doesn't give you new knowledge or the knowledge you would get from a lot of high school courses. If you wanted to go to a university, it might be better to continue your high school education and learn as much as you can before trying to dive into that environment.

Of course, if you wanted to attend university, you could get your GED and do a year or two at community college to catch up to a university level. I did my first two years at a community college (even though I finished high school on time) to save money. So that is an option to.

If you are planning to stop your education after obtaining a GED or a high school diploma - I think many employers prefer that you have a diploma over a GED if that is the highest amount of education that you have, because like I mentioned above, they assume that you learned more and had more experience.

So what did you want to do after getting your diploma or GED?
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Old Sep 28, 2012, 06:05 PM
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It depends on the academic career you find most desirable. Although GEDs are supposed to be equivalent to a high-school diploma, many people consider them inequivalent. If you want to get a Bachelor's degree (or more advanced), a high-school diploma would make the process easier since you could apply to the university straight away. If you choose to go for a GED but still want to go to university, there's a slim chance you may be accepted, otherwise you would have to go to a college or community college for at least 2 years, then transfer to a university.

Keep in mind, with online courses, you are limited in the areas which you can study. For example, if you wish to do biology, chemistry or physics, you could learn anatomy, physiological processes, underpinning of chemical reactions, stoichiiometry, physics theories and so forth, but you would be unable to perform hands-on experiments. In first-year university for these courses, you're not expected to have a lot of experience with the lab equipment, however, you are expected to have a bit of experience with basic equipment as well as how to properly interact in a lab with classmates.

On the other hand, areas such as math, some phyiscs, computer science, history, etc... don't require lab work.

If you don't have an area of study that you love and know you want to study in, that's not a problem. From personal experience, most people who I know/knew didn't have a solid idea on what they wanted. Those who did frequently changed to something else.
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Old Sep 28, 2012, 07:02 PM
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If you're going in to a community college, as George suggested, a GED would be fine. If you are considering the military, a trade school, or entering the work field, a diploma would be better. A community college is open enrollment and will take anyone with a GED provided you keep your grades up when you get there. The others often do look at a GED as being inferior and will not accept it.
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Old Sep 29, 2012, 07:43 AM
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I think you have to finish what you have "started". You probably have to formally drop out of high school in some way and then decide what route you would prefer.

Personally, I would not worry about the future until I had worked through why you are not going to school now, whatever is going on now. You cannot live in the future and on what you should do in the future/future plans; you have to deal with your depression or stress or whatever is keeping you from going to school now. Otherwise, you will just keep having the same problem; whether you are taking GED classes/coaching or trying to take classes online or whatever.
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I would try to do online school. My daughter--who is a junior this year-is doing online public school. And she loves it. She actually gets her work done faster because she doesn't have to sit through hour long classrooms and doesnt have the b.s. of high school drama to distract her. She gets her assigments, does them, and turns them in, via web. She does have class connects a couple times a week to "check in" with her teachers but that only takes a few minutes at a time. It allows for a very flexible schedule!
I wish they had online public school available when I was younger (I'm an old geezer now-lol). I would have done a lot better if I could have gone that route. Going to school with my peers definately had a negative affect on me and is a big part of why I have a mental illness to this day.
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hey, just thought I should let you know that you're not alone ! I have a similar story; I am naturally intelligent, but my mental issues get in the way of me doing what I need to do. When I started my junior year of high school, I went through a series of hospital stays (eight stays over eight months, lasting about one-three weeks each) and was gone almost the entire school year (I went to school only 60 out of 181 days). Then, around Easter of this year (which was supposed to be my senior year) I just got really sick and depressed (I had some kind of stress-induced tick/seizure thing) and I dropped out in April. I signed up for online school this year, and for the first three-four weeks I did okay and got decent grades on my assignments. But around the end of September, I just started getting so messed up in my head again (I say this because I deal with depression, but also some other very unpleasant things like hallucinations and paranoia). I have barely worked on any homework since then and am rapidly falling behind I want to be able to say that, at the very least, I have been able to finish high school. But I find myself unable to think and function, and whenever I even look at my schoolwork, I can't help but feel helpless, like I don't even want a future, and find my mind straying into those ugly suicidal thoughts. I am sorry I can't help or offer you any advice, I just think that sometimes it helps to know that you're not completely alone. I hope this post was at least somewhat comforting to you. I hope you find an answer to your problem, and good luck
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