Anyone know any options i can take??

How about finish the year (since it is almost over) then go take your GED so you can get on with life? Why didn't your counselor suggest this one? This one can be obtained within weeks. Attending more school will not guarantee an education, so why not get your GED and get on with your life out in the real world where you will continue to learn, grow, and become all you can be?

So you made some mistakes? Many people have. You have realized this and am now taking steps to rectify the issue. Continuing to attend school is not necessarily going to help you get your education right. Getting an education is much more than credits, grades, and showing up to a class. An education is when you learn things, retain the information and use the information in real life doing real things (like a job, volunteering, being part of a family and community).

What exactly is an eduation? Is it good grades? Is it 22.5 credits? Is it sitting in class reading Shakespeare? Is it computing numbers? Or is an education where you take in information and apply it to the real workings of your world?

To give an example: I often shop and go out to eat. While I am out and about, I often run into many people who work in restaurants and stored who cannot count change, cannot make change from a dollar, and who cannot add, find percentages, or make choices on their own. But in school these same people can do algebra. Algebra?How is algebra going to help you make change from a dollar?

Don't get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with algebra, and if you are an architect or a civil engineer or electrician, it is essential to have these skills, but how can algebra be used in real life when most people coming out of schools now do not have a basic understaning of basic math? Basic math skills are used daily throughout life and are necessary in order to make transactions, keep a checkbook balanced, live on a budget, and other things.

Will you need to know, dissect and give discourse on Robert Frost poetry, or will you need to know how to cook, fill out an application, and change your motor oil? I love Robert Frost poetry, but I do not need to go to school in order to enjoy it or understand it. I certainly do not need to dissect it.

Too often today an education is thought of as diplomas and papers and degrees. But these are just material proofs that you did what you were told (showed up, listened, homework, and tests). Does it really mean you know the material? If you cram for a test (and ace it), then two weeks later you cannot recall the information, are you "educated" ? well, certainly not on what you passed the tests for.

You will learn so much more by hands-on experiences, reading, keeping a checkbook, and working than you could ever learn in a school. Go get your GED and go running after a real education for all it is worth.

Whatever you are interested in: study it on your own. Find something and study it, then find something else and study it. This can be anything from the stats of MVP players to Madagascar. Just make learning fun, enjoyable, and life-long.

And no one will be able to call you a "drop-out" because you never dropped out. You quit (after the end of the year) because you got a GED. People quit jobs all the time and no one calls them "drop-outs" because they drop out of a job, so why call people "drop-outs" because they quit/leave school in order to drop into life and continue their educations for life?

Another argument is you are a "quitter". Well, yeah...isn't everybody? After all people quit jobs, quit clubs, quit bowling, quit memberships in sports, and quit all kind sof things. Doesn't this make them "quitters", too?? Who came up with the idea that those who leave school are quitters? No, they are just taking control of their lives and not allowing others to make their choices for them.

The schools want you to stay. They get state, federal, and local taxes for you when you are enrolled in their school. Biut when you quit (to get your GED) they will mno longer get these funds. Instead, you will be working somewhere, planning on whether or not you want to go to college, a technical school, apprenticeship, start your own business, or go to work for someone. You will be making important choices about how you want your life. You have so much potential and possibilities because we all have the chance to be what and who we were created to be. Becoming a "career" student in order to make enough "credits" for someone else, is this why you were created? I don't think so.

Dream. Dream big. But live your own life and your own dreams, not someone else's. You want an education? Then get on with life and get one. School is not a real education, it is a hindrance in most cases. If you were really getting an education, then those grades and credits would be meaningless. Instead, you are filling a quota for someone who is just interested in keeping their job. If there aren't enough students, the teachers get laid off. But you were not born to warm a desk and keep a teacher at work. Let the younger kids do this one.

You need to get a life and in the process you will get an education. No one lives in a vacuum. If you are not growing and absorbing information, then you are stagnating. Believe in youself and be all you can be.