Unschooling

[AidanChrist]

Does anyone here have any experience with "unschooling" during the high school years? I have become extremely dissatisfied with the conventional school environment and critical of all aspects of it. I have always been a very independent learner and I hate being bribed with grades or the promise of that ever elusive high school diploma that will get me on the fast track to a "successful" life. Because of this I have become interested in quitting school and learning on my own, perhaps taking classes at a local community college. If anyone with more experience has any input on my scenario it would be appreciated.

[primetime]

late reply, probably irrelevant now. But i'm in the same boat, I dropped out before and honestly it didn't do much but get me farther behind in escaping the prison of high school. My way out, was just dealing with it honestly. I understand all the information i'm being taught is practically useless/very skewed information. I'd recommend online school that's work at your own pace, so you can fly through the ridiculous information and play the system for them, then graduate on your own and abandon the system and start your own personal studies on subjects that interest you more in college, community college, or even just researching. It's my plan, and even if it's depressing to deal with learning the repetitive hate-monging Texas history classes and theocracy-based science classes, I have to deal with it so eventually I can spend my school hours studying the arts, philosophy, politics, etc. and you can do the same. good luck! :grin:

[Ro Laren]

If you quit school and go to community college you're just going to end up getting a GED and taking the same shitty classes but paying out the nose for them instead. If I were you I'd just half ass it the rest of the way through high school, read lots of books, and enjoy all that free time while you can.

[Creative Destruction]

Looking back, my major regret in high school was not dropping out and getting my GED earlier, so I could've been done with community college earlier and gotten into university earlier. But Ro Laren is right. Community college is just an extension of high school. There's nothing special about it, it's the same boring ass 100- and 200- level courses and the instructors treat you like you're in high school. You're paying for credits to get into university.

I'd maybe look into Sudbury schools if there's one around you. Some of them have tuition assistance to help out poorer kids.