For the last like 9 Years I've been going to a public charter school, and for 6 of those 9 Years, my grades were next to utter crap. With this being my first year of High School, I decided that I was going to try to do much better grade wise, and my mother suggested doing Online schooling, the K12 program to be exact, and so far, I've been doing way better than before. Now here's my problem: Since I'm no longer going to a public place for school every day, I'm afraid that it's going to affect me to the point of being an anti-social freak when I get into college. (By anti-Social freak I mean going out of my way to stay away from people and end up looking foolish when I get into a conversation.) Am I just being paranoid, or is this something I should be concerned about? Any and all thoughts and suggestions are appreciated.
I wouldn't go nearly as far as to say you're going to become completely anti-social. All you have to do to prevent becoming anti-social is to get involved. Join a club or a team, or just get together with old friends. You don't have to clog up your schedule or anything, just make an effort every once in a while to join in on an event or gathering.
hey if this online schooling is working then thats good keep at it. if your worried about being foolish in an conversation when you get to college like you said you wont as long as you be yourself then that wont happen.
A lot of people that go to public school are socially awkward (i.e. me), just because you're apart of an online program doesn't mean you're automatically going to be this way. Is there a greater danger of it, yes, but you can avoid it pretty easily. Like Luna said, retain contact with old friends, and see if you can get involved with local projects or groups. Even if you're not crazy about their purpose, just being around people will be good for you. And even if your social life suffers a bit, I'm sure you can make up for lost time come college.
Don't worry about a thing~! Just because you won't get to see your friends everyday at school, it doesn't mean that you will become "anti-social." I mean, you still get to hang out with them, right? And it's okay that you're going to school online, because you're getting better grades. That's gonna pay off in college, yeah? (But what would I know about college; I'm only 13 ^^; ) Basically, as long as you still socialize with your friends after they get off of school and you continue to get better grades; you'll be fine when you're older! c:
Thank you so much guys, you have no idea how much this helps me. All of your suggestions have already started to make a difference for me. Again, thank you all.
I know one or two people who go don't go to secondary school (high scool) but do online schooling instead and they havn't become anti-social. Like the others have already said; as long as you keep in contact with old friends or maybe even join a club or a team you should be fine, if not then you could meet people on online school? -sorry if that sounds like a bad idea- Some people can do days/weeks without talking to friends (i.e my brother and I) and they don't become anti socail, if you do fear you are becoming anti social then what I suggest is going out and meeting people who have the same hobbies as you, or again like the others have mentioned meet friends etc. Good grades will help get into a good college and I'm sure there might be some -if you do ever become anti social or socially awkward- people like you, so you may not feel so differnt. I wish you the best of luck with your grades and I hope my advice helped a little.
Thanks, that helps a lot. In fact, the idea about meeting others who are in my school program would be a good idea, so thanks for sharing that with me. :)
