Depressed With School

Tomorrow I'm going back to school after the weekend. It will be my second week, and I'm already very tired of school.
I've been homeschooled all my life (minus first grade) and just recently my parents decided to put me back into a "real" school. It uses almost the same method as homeschooling, except 8 hours a day, and teachers, and homework. I can't work out how someone can make you spend eight hours in school, then send you home and tell you to study some more. Ten hours a day of study is just simply waayy too much.
So I know this sounds very stupid and whiny, but I've become really depressed over school, especially as I've done what I do in most situations; developed a crush on a certain other student. I know that I will only end up hurt or disappointed, but I can't help it... it's like this pattern I have. So now I'm sitting back doing my homework waiting for it all to catch up to me.
On top of that, the school doesn't have PE. Sitting still for 8 hours, five days a week... let's just say I feel REALLY stuffy ad suppressed. I need breathing room, space to be myself. It's such a tiny school that all the girls are several years younger than me, the boys exactly my age. There's no opportunity to meet lots of people... school is turning out so badly, and I get so tired, because all my sleeping patterns are to boot...

sorry for the vent. It's just that I've been crying over this a lot and feeling so stressed and left-out. I really wish that school were more interesting, that I wasn't such a loner. But well, that's me, I guess :)

//T.L.//

School gets to us all, don't feel too bad about venting about it. Id imagine that there is a big different between home school and real school, but truth be told, you are better going to real school. It will better prepare you for the real world, all the work that you will eventually encounter between work and higher education or a profession. Just try and take it easy, when it gets to be too much, sit back for a few min and just relax. Make as many friends as you can, I know you said that its a small school but do the best you can, one of the best things about real school is the socialization that goes on through the day. It is really a necessity in breaking up all the hours of work. As I said, it is hard. Just keep at it and try and take things as they come, don't make problems that aren't there and do whatever you can to relax.

You might feel depressed about it all in the beginning. But it gets better.

My only advice is to try to go to bed maybe 2 hours before 11. Which is like 9. But I dont know your time there so yeah.

Just please promise you'll try your hardest to keep up. I already have a friend that's not going to make it in High School becasue she doesn't do her homework and stays up until 4 AM in the morning and is always tired. Just make yourself sit down to do homework and everything like that.

Like yesterday I told myself the only way I can go out and take a walk was I had to do the 2 week load of dishes that my grandma wanted me to do, take out the trash and DO my 2 chapters of vocab that I had to get done. It's not hard to do once you start doing homework. I found myself getting my homework done in an hour when I found that I had fun doing it. lol. Then in the end I ended up working for 5 hours straight.

All I am saying. It'll get better. Just make plans of what your going to do at a certian time and do it at that time!!

Hope I helped!

I'm afraid I have to agree... I memorized ten types of energy, and then consulted adults (who'd been through school) how many types they knew. On average, about three or so. This stuff just doesn't stick. My passion and ambition lies with dance, and know that I can't even concentrate properly on that, I feel as though my life is being destroyed. I'm watching it slip away... and wow, it feels so terrible, to not even be able to put up a fight.

My mum says that I have to do one year. My sister left school when she was 15 and now works as a bilingual secretary... and supposedly I can do the same. I have a snekaing suspicion that they might try to force me to stay on and finish more than one year of school. Today's Monday of the second week, and I already feel as though I've done plenty enough of school... oh, if only I could get back to concentrating on dance, it would be so nice.

I've come to understand why school-kids act the way they do. I've always been relatively well-behaved, but now with the stress of school I'm starting to disregard any morals I might have had. It's about survival now.. I hate what this is doing to my life.

//T.L.//

Wow. Don't get too down now! It's your time to shine and socialize! + Be smart ;P do other things part time if you feel like it. And yes, homework is terrible.

I say the minimum should be 10 min hw!!!!