I've not been in school my whole life. Any help is appreciated

Hello, I'm 16 (soon to be 17 in a few days on the first of november). Would it be too late to go back to high school, or GED? I don't even want to count it as homeschool. My dad taught me very little, no curriculum to follow, teaching was sparse (months or years could go by without any teaching; he kinda expected me to learn myself), and I don't know how to do fractions or long division. The subject he taught was pretty much just math as the others weren't as extensive. Basically, everything I know is from myself, and I really haven't studied anything as the years gone by. He gave up on me learning the subjects at least a year ago. I don't like living like this. My parents make us live like shit. I have no education, haven't went outside more than maybe 5 times this year, socially inept, cps was called over one time and they said our extremely messy house was a fire hazard (it's only gotten worse), sleep schedule always changes later and later, hard to focus with distractions at home (sharing rooms), staring at the computer/device for 12-14+ hours per day, and many more.

Having so many gaps in my knowledge, would the high school even fix my knowledge of elementary and middle school knowledge? I'd assume they only focus on high school material. If I enroll, how would I graduate faster, other than taking summer school? I really don't want to be 20 by the time I graduate. I feel old just sitting next to people years younger than me as well.

I don't know how the school system works as I never went to one, but I googled some stuff. I'm in Texas by the way.

If I assume a school year is 200 days for me with summer school, and classes are 5 hours. Would I be able to graduate in 3 years? (school year x class length) (3 years) / 120 = 25 credits
I see that typically you need 22-26 credits to graduate. Is this realistic or not? I don't think I'm well prepared, but assuming I don't fail anything, would it take longer with the lack of knowledge? There are so many words I don't know. I also don't even know how to form sentences. It's mostly a gut feeling, and I probably have many grammar mistakes. I don't know what subject-verb agreement, passive voice, adverbs, clauses are for example. They're probably easy to learn if I took the time to do so. I think my grades would poor as well. I haven't had a conversation with my parents in a long time because I am shy; however, I think I have to tell them soon, or it'll get worse.

Not to mention I have 2 other brothers who have no education, and in the same situation I've described above. One is 19 next month, and youngest is 14. Is it too late to go back to high school? Even for the 19 yo? He's not being productive at all. We all suck at everything tbh.

Submitted October 30, 2022 at 12:38AM by General_Leg_777 https://ift.tt/fcZzoUS