That sounds awesome. Wish I knew homeschooling was even an option.
I know this isn’t the ‘Mental health issues’ thread, but here’s why I was on independent studies:
This was in 2003/4- at the time, had crippling social anxiety and was essentially having panic attacks at least twice a day while at school. I never left campus while in public school but got to a point where I only carried one book in my backpack because I refused to go to my locker (which I never knew the location of) due to having panic attacks in any big crowd. The semester I left, I had an F in every subject except for Spanish 101.
The peak of it was when I was at a school assembly, in the bleachers, and thought every single person in the gym was looking at me during a presentation. One day thought I was having a heart attack, that’s when my parents pulled the plug and let me do independent studies. Later in life, this would lead to a major Xanax addiction that I’d go to rehab for.
Independent studies was a pilot program at the time. 100% of my courses were online and 95% of my tests were online, multiple choice. The cherry on top was you could fail the quiz, then go back with the correct answers, re-submit the test and no one would know you ever failed. I graduated in a class of 20 people, taking all AP courses (calculus, Spanish 3) with over a 4.0 and could barely read at a freshman level.
During that time, I would skate every single day for hours on end, as I never studied for tests and almost never had homework. That was my prime, hands down.
If I’m being totally honest with myself, I think I started smoking too much weed and doing drugs at a young age and that was the source of most of my anxiety. Topped with feeling like I could only talk to skaters or girls who dated skaters, I was in my own very small world.
Ironically, now being sober outside from the occasional drink, I have had almost 0 social anxiety for the past 6 years and take no prescription medications.