I say good for you! It’s nice to see someone who wants to take their education seriously. It sounds like you’ve got your priorities straight, so go for it. Make sure to keep seeing your friends, seek out ways to make new friends, but you’re right: homeschooling will definitely allow you to focus on your studies. You’ll find that you will get MORE done than your schooled peers in the same amount of time and you won’t have to do homework in the evenings, unless you want to. 🙂

Go for it. Because you’re right: not only in a few years, but 50, 60 years down the road, you’ll know that your education was more important than the fun.

I was in your situation but a reversed one. I attended school until the third grade when my mother pulled me out. She home schooled me until the 9th grade and I attended high school and graduated with a hundred or so of my peers. I found that home schooling was very effective and I was advanced for my age. This continued throughout my high school education. Homeschooling has great advantages where you have one on one tutoring, no distractions, and open hours. I was able to do school whereever I needed to go, so going to the beach doing four different lessons, swimming and then finishing the last three wasn’t a problem. It made learning fun. However, the down sides to homeschooling are that I was unable to relate to my peers. I was involved with activities but being isolated can be damaging. It may have just been me and my maturity level, just not matching with my peers; I will never know. You will be able to experience high school only once. I maintained a 4.0 average through school but never really enjoyed school because of my concentration on studies. It will be more difficult as well to obtain scholarships and grants when one is homeschooled, as it is harder to be recognized. Colleges are more wary of homeschooled teens as well.

I think that you could try homeschooling for a semester and see if it fits your life. You can also go back to public school if it doesn’t fit your needs. You may find it harder to learn without a professional teaching each specific field of study. However you never know it could be the best thing you’ve ever done. Hope all of my rambling helps.

You are making the right decision, and I assume it is with your parents’ approval. However, I would like to emphasize that grades are not nearly as important as what you are learning. Homeschooling will give you the opportunity to learn, to study subjects in more depth, to advance at your own pace, to truly master study materials before moving on to the next lesson, etc.

Regarding your social life, you can still continue to see your public school friends, join a homeschooling support group and make new friends, explore/cultivate your interests/hobbies, volunteer, get a part-time job, etc. The possibilities are endless.

You are a young lady who has her priorities straight. Too many distractions are not good in an educational environment, and homeschooling will help you to focus more.

You can be homeschooled and still maintain the social life you had in school, just spend time with them after school.

Join a few groups or clubs, and you’ll have some homeschooled friends.

If you want to be homeschooled, will work to find the right way for you, and will do your best to make it a success it will work.

If you sit around waiting for someone to do it for you -doesn’t sound like you from this post- it will fail.

Once you leave school, people stop doing everything for you.

I think that it is really neat that you are actually thinking about your grades. Most kids your age could care less. They are more concerned about friends, boyfriends and girlfriends, sports, extracurriculars, etc. I think if you truly want to make goods grades and feel this cannot be achieved by going to a Public school then I think you should give homeschooling a try. It is important to get good grades in highschool. It sets you up for college and a good job later on. They look at these even on the community college level.

I wish you luck. I homeschool my daughter and plan on homeschooling her all the way on to college.

This could be the right decision for you, homeschooling is great and can be a much better education than you would get in school. You should know that its not the only option though, you could also just discipline yourself to focus on your work.

My kids are homeschooled, so I am not trying to talk you out of it, but I do want you to realize that regardless of where you study, you will have to discipline yourself to focus on your studies! Home is not an exception, at home the phone rings, TV shows come on, people knock on the door, books can be misplaced, you get e-mails… all of these things can distract you if you let them, but you don’t have to let them!

Everyone knows that the first few weeks of school are review. It’s a fact of life, most kids try to forget as much as possible over summer. If you are serious about your grades you can straighten yourself out and study what you need to obtain the A’s you long for. It is entirely up to you. Don’t blame your social life for your poor grades. Your teachers have studied many years in their subject areas. If you happen to be bored, talk with your teachers; they have to be prepared for gifted students and must provide you with the education you require. If you get distracted by the fun things that happen in high school and blame that for your lack of success, what will you do as an adult and have more worries? Honestly, I don’t remember what my GPA was, I don’t remember the names of most of my teachers, but I do remember belonging. I remember the love of my friends, all of whom I am still friends with. I remember that it’s more fun to go to prom without a date and all the weird things we did at band camp. As far as college, extra-curricular activities sometimes count more than grades; they want involved students, not recluses. You need to weigh the pros and cons of each.

Based on what you’ve said, homeschooling may be a good option for you. You’ll be able to get your work done in a few hours a day and hang out with your friends when they’re not in school.

I wonder what your parents think? It would require their involvement, too. I am a homeschooling mom. If it is just about grades, those are kind of hard to prove when homeschooled, depending on your curriculum. If you want to LEARN, it is an excellent idea, but you will have to be tested regularly.

PS – my 10th grade daughter is back in public high school because we wanted her to have a good high school experience. We just wanted to make sure she knows who she is and what she believes.

It sounds like a good idea 🙂 You study while everyone else is in school, and you’ll have time afterwards to go and hang out with your friends like you usually do.