*Sorry for the giant post
First off I would like to say that I'm not sure if this is the correct sub for questions like this, and if it isn't, what would be a good sub to post this on. If it is, then here is my post.
Hey there, you can call me Ace. I'm turning 13 soon and am currently in 6th grade. I am supposed to be in 7th based on my age but my family moved from Russian when I was about six years old, and because I wasn't too familiar with the English language, I went to kindergarten instead of first grade so I could learn English better and faster. Which is why I'm about 6-9 months older than most of my classmates.
I guess I'll cut straight to the questions. I currently live in the NYC area and am dubbed a "gifted" kid. I guess you can say so, I read books like don Quixote, pride and prejudice, Anna Karenina, and war and peace at the age of 11. I've also learned multiple coding languages such as C#, C++, java, JavaScript, and python at a very young age and built my own PC when I was 9. I managed to finish algebra 1 and geometry in 5th grade by self teaching myself, and I'm almost done with Algebra 2. And finally I did chemistry and physics at around the same mid high school level about a year ago. The reason I am saying all of this isn't to brag, but for you to imagine how boring 6th where they are still teaching us stuff like fractions and when we are reading Roald Dahl's childrens' books.
So, my family decided to move to Florida around 6 months ago as my dad had some job opportunities there. My parents also decided to enroll me in a private school where I can be more academically challenged as they offer advanced classes and I might even be able to skip a few grades there. However, due to uncontrollable circumstances we are going to have to stay in New York for around a year and a half.
I cannot bear it anymore though, as arrogant as this may sound, I believe myself to be wasting my life sitting through the classes to the point where I just don't go sometimes as I learn absolutely nothing and my school doesn't offer honors classes until 7th grade, which I checked on, they are also pretty easy. I was wondering what my best bet would be, I can go to a private school that will allow me to take even more advanced classes if I can find a good scholarship that I can apply to, which will preferably cover most of the costs. The only problem being is that my parents haven't received a green card yet, even though its been over 6 years, which means we aren't citizens yet and most scholarships require citizenship.
There is always the option of self teaching myself even more through free online resources but even that has some problems, like me having to waste my own time when physical school comes back and sit in the classroom all day doing nothing, and there won't be any competition in the school. The second problem being myself, I have a passion for knowledge and always want to know more, but that only takes you so far and eventually you just give up, I have to use extra time on top of all the stuff I get from school. If I come back from school at 2:30 by the time I'm home it will be 3 pm. I will then have to eat until about 3:30, half hour will be spent on homework (usually I have to spend around 5 minutes but lets take 5 hours in case I do choose the honors classes). I'll have around 2 hours of other extracurricular classes so I will be home by 6 to actually relax. At which point I have to spend a good 2-3 hours teaching myself something, as I find if I spend less time than that I don't learn as efficiently. Which leaves me with a good 2-3 hours to do whatever I want, which isn't bad but when there is no one encouraging you or helping you out its terrible. I've tried this before and I start feeling hopeless and gloomy every time, as I have nothing to persuade me to do this any further. I'm wondering what my best bet would be to get a better education as I hate wasting 6-8 hours a day on something that I learn nothing from. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Submitted March 30, 2021 at 09:40AM by SamTheAce0409 https://ift.tt/3m6giqX
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