What Does It Mean To Be Home Schooled

Throughout my first semester, I kept telling myself that I'm gonna get my work done , i'm gonna go to class , but i never kept my word. Instead of going to school I either hung out with friends or I worked. I thought I would be able to work , go to school and still have a social life.

After a long day of school, listening to teachers go on and on about an “important subject”, I just want to be able to relax, hang out with some friends, or spend some time in my hammock. Yet, I open up the myHomework app on my iPad, only to find that night’s homework on display for me. I cry a little inside, take a deep breath, and get to work.

Sadly I’m stuck in school. Not to mention all the other things eating up my time. Although there’s things I enjoy, there’s things I’m not fond of like work. My job isn’t the worst. The pay is fair, the people are kind. Although if I didn’t need money in life I wouldn’t be wasting my time. Who would? Then there’s any work my family gives me. They don’t usually give me work, but that’s why I do it. Aside from that there’s all the school work outside of school. It seems some teachers are beginning to understand that we have lives to live and that no one does homework. It’s all just pointless busy work

My life has been a test since I turned into an online student. Every day I am currently battling to adjust coming home from being at work all night, my life and my school work are hard to balance. Just to let you know what I do at work my positions on my job is housekeeping supervisor and I work at Parkland Hospital Tuesday through Sunday, and I leave home going to work at 8:30 pm it takes me 35 minutes to get there so I won't be late. When I get there, I start getting thing ready for my employee’s. So, I must start printing material that everybody needs so when they come we will be ready to start our meeting with the staff and begin working. We prepare rooms for the patient to be checked- in the hospital. With every one of these obligations, my work night is full, and I regularly don't have time to take a break before it is 7:30 am and start my drive home.

I have to “shoot my elephant” almost every single night. I do not believe that homework is right. We go to school for eight hours a day, but we still have an extra two to five hours worth of homework to do after school? I do not see where this is right. I hardly ever get to talk to my parents or watch television, because I am up until 9:00 every night rushing to finish all of the homework that I have!

Every morning I wake up searching my bed for my phone. Flipping sheets and pillows until my phone appears. I lay back in bed and check my Facebook, Snapchat and Reddit. Telling myself that i'll get out of bed in fifteen minutes but I get absorbed into my phone and that fifteens minutes turn into thirty minutes. I start to do the rest of chemistry homework but in five minutes I lose my concentration and I reach for my phone without thinking. I end up doing my homework last minute before class. I always tell myself that I got to do my homework right after school. But that never happens because the same thing that always happens in the morning, Its a endless cycle. While I was typing up this essay, I thought of batman and went to Netflix and watched Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Five hours wasted that i could've used for homework. Some people self diagnose themselves with ADHD and blame their attention span and willingness to learn on ADHD. I blame it on the internet and ourselves.

At the end of eighth grade year, I was ready for high school with all of the new experiences and challenges that comes along with it that it brings. Throughout the summer I had participated in activities that allowed me to become familiar with the school and some of the students. Unfortunately, school didn’t start good at all. All the amazing people I had gotten to know during the summer, I didn’t have any classes with. On top of that, I am such a pariah in my EGE class. From the first week of school I knew that connecting with my fellow peers in that class was going to be a challenge because

I stay late at school in order to complete my work. I understand that there are distractions at my house and take action to remove myself from those distractions. I invest large amounts of time to my academics because I hold myself responsible to improving myself academically.

If you have a job or go to a school, it can be hard, I can relate from being a student, although you need to be able to relax. It is 2016 where social standards are at its peak and continually rising and now more than ever, millions work long work days at stressful jobs, and everyone leads independent and different lives all filled with their own struggles. Now it’s more crucial than ever to do something YOU want to do.

when added all together. That is my life as a teen. I gave birth to a baby girl during my freshmen year. By sophomore year, I was in the Early College Program, so by my junior year, I was taking high school and college classes at the same time. Now, as a senior, I just take college classes. It is very difficult to manage college classes, a child, and work, along with what life hands you. There were days when I felt like I was paying no attention to my daughter because of all the homework I had. Spending quality time with your kids is very important, so I decided to do my homework after she fell asleep. She goes to bed around 8:30, so now I stay up and

I remember going into my freshman year of high school nervous but excited because I thought I’d learn so many new things. Next thing you know I found myself dreading school. Was I being lazy? Was it my lack of motivation? I still can’t grasp why exactly I lost that excitement or that yearning to go to school. I was raised to have the idea that school was a place to learn not socialize. But at the age of 14, what teenagers don’t want to socialize and that’s what got a hold of me. I spent too much time worrying about other things that didn’t involve my education.

Have you ever heard someone say "The more you say something, the more people will believe it."? My dad is infamous for this quote. When we are young we hear our influences reason that college is the worst schooling we will ever have to face. The more we hear it, the more we believe it. Eventually, as we grow up, we have friends who go off to college, and they explain it 's not as bad as we had imagined it to be, but the bad we’ve heard throughout our life outweighs the bit of good we might hear in the last year or two before we ourselves go off to college. We then go to college with the bad stuck in our mind. Not only that, but in attempting to 'protect ' ourselves, we close ourselves out, avoiding things that present themselves as challenges. We 're in a strange place with people we don 't know, concepts we don 't understand, and new experiences to be had. We are afraid of how we will be accepted by those around us, we are unsure if we will be able to comprehend what it is we 're being told, and we feel this new ordeal is unfathomable. It 's a huge difference going from high school to college, and more so as a homeschooler. My past experience in a school-like setting involved a group of us meeting once a week having our parents teach us in a small classroom setting. There were eleven total students enrolled in the high school program, and not everybody had been enrolled in the same class. The largest class consisted of eight students, and the smallest class, four. I

As a child, I was always reminded that school work came first and that I should spend all my free time working on prep books for the upcoming standardized test. If I was not working on prep books, I was expected to get ahead in my classes and study more advanced material. With the balance of my preexisting school work and the additional work I was told to do, this left me with no real time to relax and forget about school for one moment. While school is important, it should not consume your whole life because balance is the key to managing anything. Having a balance between school work and other activities such as watching TV and socializing with friends is important to your well-being. I stressed myself out too much with my own workload. I had

Does this sound like you? Wait, that’s all of us! For twelve years, the seven hour day at school just seems to get longer and longer every year. I know, graduation day is laying out at the beach while we suffer learning about pythagorean theorem. As as much as we despise this thing called “school,” there are steps to excel academically, mentally, and emotionally. I think we’ve all cried at least once over how stressful school can be.

Everyday I walk home, it’s a short walk, only around a mile, but afterwards I’m tired from both my walk and school. I’m always hoping I have no homework and no chores, but that’s never the case for me. No matter how much homework I get I have at least 2 big chores that can take upwards of 40 minutes, and stacked with the hour to two hours homework I get, I feel stuck. All I ever think about is “What are my grades” and “Am I going to be able to talk with my friends”. I can’t explore my interests and my own