RavenSly
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Hi, currently, I'm enrolled at a Transition Program that's supposed to help me solve my mental problems, as well as help me get my High School Diploma. I'm having a couple problems there, some old, and some new. The first problem is the same one that caused me to eventually fail high school, Attendance. I'm extremely smart, and my Homeroom Teacher there even told me I'm the smartest student they've ever had, but I have serious problems with getting up in the morning, for a number of reasons. First, I have a habit of staying up late at night, as well as drinking soda with caffeine in it, which I know for a fact takes 5 hours to pass through my system, and that it is virtually impossible for me to fall asleep when I have caffeine in me. Also, when I wake up in the morning, I'm not alert and focused. I'm groggy and in a sort of half-asleep state where I can't think clearly, and where it is very difficult for me to summon the willpower to get out of bed, and so I will often miss school because I sleep in.
This is compounded by a second problem, the one that is the main purpose of my creating this thread. Put quite simply, I'm bored with my school, and I don't feel like I belong there. Although most of the students there have some kind of mental problem, most of them are, quite frankly, complete idiots. A lot of them have trouble reading even basic english, doing math, know little about history, and don't take any academic exertion seriously. It's like they're completely incapable of seeing that they'll need to learn some basic skills, and light a fire under their asses so that they can get a job. I've been at some of the work sites [places in the community where the school has us do volunteer work] the school provides with some of these kids, and seen how they perform in a work situation, and a lot of them have absolutely no work ethic at all, and would never survive at a real job. Although I resist the urge to do so, I'm really starting to think I'm just in a completely different league from these clowns. I do have some friends there who are more my level, but having to put up with these delinquent goofballs who can't focus on anything serious for any period of time, who don't understand the concept of an inside voice, and whose ridiculous antics disrupt the classes on a nearly constant basis, is really starting to get on my nerves.
And its not just the students. I'm being quite honest when I say I could name multiple teachers at that school who I'm 100% sure I'm smarter than. When you're going to a school where even a lot of the staff are dumber than you, you know you're not in the right place. Because of this, and because of the pathetically low academic abilities of the other students pulling me down, I'm forced to do schoolwork that either has nothing to do with academics, or is so low-level that it's not challenging at all. Even their so-called "Advanced" classes are not challenging to me in the least, and I'm now finding myself getting bored there. I'm not motivated to go there at all, the only reason I keep doing so being that I want my diploma so I can finally go to college and actually get challenged by my schoolwork again.
Anyway, I just wanted to know if anyone you guys know some way I could get some challenging activities, like some classes I could take [in-person, I can't handle online classes], or some way someone here or somewhere else could give me something to do so I can pass the time. Just for reference, I'm very good at writing and art, and would like some way to advance my skills, as although I went to an art school where I got very good at them, I've had trouble keeping them sharp due to the lack of opportunities I've had to use them at my school. I also like science, history, and other social sciences. I'm not however very good at math [I can manage, I just struggle with it sometimes, and can take a long time to complete a problem], and learning new languages is very difficult for me.
This is compounded by a second problem, the one that is the main purpose of my creating this thread. Put quite simply, I'm bored with my school, and I don't feel like I belong there. Although most of the students there have some kind of mental problem, most of them are, quite frankly, complete idiots. A lot of them have trouble reading even basic english, doing math, know little about history, and don't take any academic exertion seriously. It's like they're completely incapable of seeing that they'll need to learn some basic skills, and light a fire under their asses so that they can get a job. I've been at some of the work sites [places in the community where the school has us do volunteer work] the school provides with some of these kids, and seen how they perform in a work situation, and a lot of them have absolutely no work ethic at all, and would never survive at a real job. Although I resist the urge to do so, I'm really starting to think I'm just in a completely different league from these clowns. I do have some friends there who are more my level, but having to put up with these delinquent goofballs who can't focus on anything serious for any period of time, who don't understand the concept of an inside voice, and whose ridiculous antics disrupt the classes on a nearly constant basis, is really starting to get on my nerves.
And its not just the students. I'm being quite honest when I say I could name multiple teachers at that school who I'm 100% sure I'm smarter than. When you're going to a school where even a lot of the staff are dumber than you, you know you're not in the right place. Because of this, and because of the pathetically low academic abilities of the other students pulling me down, I'm forced to do schoolwork that either has nothing to do with academics, or is so low-level that it's not challenging at all. Even their so-called "Advanced" classes are not challenging to me in the least, and I'm now finding myself getting bored there. I'm not motivated to go there at all, the only reason I keep doing so being that I want my diploma so I can finally go to college and actually get challenged by my schoolwork again.
Anyway, I just wanted to know if anyone you guys know some way I could get some challenging activities, like some classes I could take [in-person, I can't handle online classes], or some way someone here or somewhere else could give me something to do so I can pass the time. Just for reference, I'm very good at writing and art, and would like some way to advance my skills, as although I went to an art school where I got very good at them, I've had trouble keeping them sharp due to the lack of opportunities I've had to use them at my school. I also like science, history, and other social sciences. I'm not however very good at math [I can manage, I just struggle with it sometimes, and can take a long time to complete a problem], and learning new languages is very difficult for me.
