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i'm now seriously having to think of other options other than GCSEs at the moment, going back to school just looks practicaly immpossble. i've thought about possibly doing them next year -when i should be- or taking them this year as an exsternal candidate, teaching myself. i've thought that if i get on with my music stuff, and then go back to my academic stuff, i might give myself a better chance. seeing as going back to school just doesn't look like it's gonna happen.
has anyone done this, or have any thoughts on other possibilities?
has anyone done this, or have any thoughts on other possibilities?
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how'd you plan on doing that then?
you realise you'd probably have to pay for your exam entries that way?
i have to pay as it is
not answering the first part of my question then?
and yes, like almost_innocent said, i think you should explain your situation more. i don't know anything - are you living in England now then?
since going to many different schools and having the same problems i can no longer attend main stream schools. i'm a year ahead in all my subject and i'm ment to be attending a tutorial college here in spain. but i can't as it's too far away and there are no othere schools that i can go to nearer.
music stuff: there are a few courses and things out here that i could take, and i could really teach myself keyboards again and guitar.
but i don't really know of anyother alternatives to going back to school.....:(
hope that explains it a bit better
home tutoring?
another thing, why can't you attend mainstream schools?
i can't cope with the strain....and stuff like that...
the strain?
are you having a laugh?
i'm sorry but if that's that only reason you're giving me as to why you cannot attend school then that's all i can go on and i think it sounds like a bit of a silly excuse.
i get panic attacks and stuff, thats what i ment by the strain. it makes me really ill. i got really bad chest pains and headaches and dizziness and stuff.
i should be starting my GCSEs this year but i'm finishing them instead as i'm year ahead.
What do your parents/whoever you live with have to say about the situation? Have you talked about getting help for your school phobia or discussed the situation with them?
i guess you've been to the doctors and everything? can't they give you any help?
don't you think it would be wise to work on getting over that rather than taking exams a year early (which i've never seen the point of - do the extra years work and get better grades, surely?).
cause if you can't cope with school, how the hell are you going to cope with the strain of the workplace?
(and yes i know you're going to be an international rock star, but that's what we all think, and 99% of us end up in 9-5 jobs).
it's a think with what i associate school with. i've been bullied in almost every school i've been to, from just general name calling and having my work destroyed, to having a knife held to my head.
i got very fustrated with "normal schools" because i was consistantly labled as either much higher or lower than the standard- usualy higher- and not getting any extra help i.e. work that was of a higher level ect.
i can't handle being around kids of the same age, they all just seem so cruel to me, and teacher seem so condisending, like they are the all knowing and all seeing creatures that should be resected just because of this fact. since being bullied by one teacher, i have lost all faith in teachers.
i have done various "little" jobs in shops and stuff like serving and things and i can cope easily, but with school i can't. but this college because it more of a college than a school i can because there is a mutual respect, and i am treated as an individual.
i'm sorry if i seem really uppety and liek i'm above the crowd, i don't think that at all, i just find schools hard to deal with.
going back to what someone said about travling all the time. it would cost about 8 quid a day to do so, plus i would have to leave at 7:10am to get back about 8:00pm, and i don't think i could phsicaly manage this with my course work added.
take this however you want, but i'll say it anyway.
you seem to think your experience is unusual. it's not. loads of people find schools hard to deal with.
but you have two options. one is to keep running away. which is easier, but it sets a pattern for the rest of your life.
the other is to stick it out. i did that one (not that i had a choice) and i am certain that i am a better person because of it.
and as for doing exams a year early, no offence, but from your posts, it sounds like you could really use another year's study.
so, i'm having to look at what else i can do instead.
You've just said you can go to school, but it costs £8 a day so don't say you can't when you've just said there's a way around it!
If you want to finish your education, then do it. Stop being so defeatist (not sure I spelt that right) and think positivley. No one really likes teachers!
so why even mention any of the other stuff?
sounds to me like you're making excuses so that you don't have to do something you don't find easy. which is fair enough, but at the end of the day, it's your education, and no one's gonna do it but you.
And you have to think also, are your circumstances going to change within the next year to allow you either to go to the college you want to go to, or go to a school? If your problems with regular schools continue then you aren't going to be able to attend either now or in a years time, and similarly if college is inacessable to you then next year you will be in the same situation. Surely it is better to do something to confront your problems now?
Ok, so it's not what I first wanted, but it's what works for me. I can finish my GCSEs this April/June, as planned. My head teacher sees no problem in me doing this, and I can get on with my music production course and have singing, piano, guitar, and music theory lessons as well. But in the grand plan of all things I shall just have to see how it all works out...