A very close friend of mine was diagnosed with extreme social anxiety when he was eight years old. Since then, his world is completely imprisoned by medication. I myself was recently diagnosed with a form of social anxiety, but not nearly as severe as my friend's.
When you enter high school every day, the basic social system is that you're one of these three; cool, a joke, or unnoticed.
There is always the option of being home tutoring, but in most cases, the parents are paying the tutor rather than the school. Or, at least where I'm from, in order for the school to pay for the home tutoring, it must be taken to court first, and there must be medical proof of said social anxiety.
There are also people who, very much like me, can't stand sitting in one place for a long time.
Personally, I feel like most of the student body is immature. Most of the girls build their reputations on how many guys they've manipulated, and most of the boys build theirs on how many girls they've shamelessly f***ed.
It disgusts me that most of these people have no real basis for pride, and that rather than acting like young men and women, they act more or less like children.
Due to my social anxiety, ADHD, and need to constantly be in a different place, I stopped going to school altogether. Now, I have to get my GED and take an extra year of college for high school credentials.
I fail to realize why my school isn't funding services for home tutoring or a simpler way to educate people like my friend and I, rather than funding to cheap IBM laptops that distract students more or less than help them take notes in class.
But I suppose the school bases their system more on the majority of students who don't have a problem being in school as a successful system.
I don't know
What do you think?