Stuck between Homestudies and Public school?

Apply to go back to school. I am a freshman and im home schooled on the computer, im planning on going back to public school next year, actually private but thats a whole other bag of cheetos. I feel the same about being lonely all day, and my mothers husband believes i am now the in-home maid. so im going back next year because i can't stand being alone all the time.

I have a feeling you could do a lot more valuable things with your time than warm a desk at a school. Have you flipped through The Teenage Liberation Handbook? It's got all kinds of goodies in it, up to and including getting a good crop of friends, dealing with parents, and doing a lot more independently than your average teenager.

You DO need to have friends, to meet new people and to communicate with the outside world. The best way I ever did that was to travel through 6 counties in Europe by bicycle and camp in other people's backyards over a summer when I was 16...it was way more instructive than anything I did in school. (And you learn the phrase "Beware of dog" in every language, LOL!)

We are very social creatures by nature; we are not institutional creatures. Get out there and start joining groups that you have a common interest with. You have a gift of time that others aren't as lucky to have. My kids are (collectively) in Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, swimming, gymnastics, bowling, Pokemon League, and First Lego League (robotics with Legos for little kids). My youngest wants to join dance and take an art class, too. They both take classes at the local science museum and they have an open day to play every week with other homeschoolers. (Not so attractive to the teenagers in the group, but you can always set a time to sit around and shoot the breeze at a coffeeshop or the like.) I meet a lot of my friends either by living near them (neighbors) or through interests like volunteering and various sports...biking and kayaking, mainly.

Sounds like you have one and a half years of school left...assume you went back to public school tomorrow. In 18 months you'd have the same issue you have now...no school. Once you turn 18 you're not doomed to staring at the floor of your own apartment and contemplate the long, empty, friendless years ahead of you. You get out there and make new ones, as most of your old ones will move away to attend college or follow jobs out of state. I still communicate with exactly one person from high school, and I had a graduating class of over 500. (And no, I wouldn't repeat school!)