Thinking of being home-schooled

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I started my junior year if high school this past August, and it's only 1st mid-quarter and already I'm sick of school. It's not the work and classes (both are very easy) or the teachers (they adore me and are very accommodating ), it's the other students. They irritate me so much I hate them. I mean, I thought I just thought I didn't like them, but now I realize it's near full blown hatred.

They are so rude and disrespectful, not just specifically to me, but in general. (Calling a new teacher very vulgar names all because she wouldn't GIVE you the answers to questions on a very simple test? Why would you do that!?) Not to mention all their talking makes it hard to focus in class. The final straw was when some idiot stole and broke my biotechnology project.

It's either their safety or my sanity that goes first, I just have to get out of here. Never thought I'd say this, but dropping out looks pretty nice right about now.

I told my mom about my plans to be home-schooled possibly for at least my senior year but she says those are not acceptable reasons. "You're not coming home beat up are you?" she says. But all this is leaving me feeling drained and sick almost constantly and I dread going to school. I'm so bloody miserable and I don't know what to do.

The main problem with homeschooling, aside from that you would have to convince your mother, is that universities don't often take people seriously who where home schooled, because of people home schooled for religious reasons. On the other hand, universities will like that better than dropping out. If you just want to get a job after high school, your only obstacle is convincing your mother, and making sure she has the time to be involved in your education, at least whatever the minimum your state/province/country requires her to be.

As for dealing with other students, if you do have to continue with public high school, just remember that you only have to tolerate them for one more year.

I've said this on here before, you could pass the GED right now. It's about as hard as a standardized test from 7-8th grade. The hardest math is about prealgebra and basic geometry (Pythagorean theorem) and then English and social studies and science is mostly reading comprehension, not much actual background knowledge is needed. If you're interested, go to the library or buy some prep books with practice tests. Generally the practice tests are harder than the real GED. High school, unless you're in AP classes, is basically a huge scam. AP classes only make it kind of a scam, but 4 years of them only take half a year off college. So you really can do 4 years in six hours with a GED test.

If you got the work ethic to do it, what I'd recommend you do is, drop out now, get your GED as soon as your state will legally allow you to get it, rack up a good SAT score (you can take the SAT as many times as you want) for a good college. In the mean time after taking your GED, or possibly before taking your GED, depending on your laws and school practices, you can take classes at a community college. So you could spend the next 1.5 years (assuming you can take your GED/withdraw ASAP) in community college, then transfer over to a 4 year when your class is graduating. That'd be the most ideal option if you can pull it off.

If you cannot do that, then, well, you're stuck in the prison known as high school, where adolescents are sent to be babysat for 6 hours so their parents can work and so they possibly will not skip school and commit crimes. That's all high school's purpose is. So, if you look at it from the perspective of being in prison, you just have to make the most of your time, and know it's not gonna last forever, and try to have as much stuff going on outside of high school that'll make you forget about the hell known as high school. Whether it's sports or hobbies or whatever, something to get your mind off high school. That's what I wish someone told me about high school. I hated school so much I got truancy charges for staying home from it. Eventually I got pretty nihilistic with my life, and just didn't care about anything, as I knew nobody would listen to me about what my school situation was (it was worse, I was in SPED with kids who wouldn't behave at all.)

The biggest problem with high school I think is the utter lack of purpose in your life whilst in high school. For the people who are smart enough to see that it does have no real point, it's torture, living your life without meaning. So do something to give your life meaning in the meantime. If you can escape/be released from the prison known as high school, then certainly get your freedom, but if you cannot, just remember it won't last forever.