Parents never enrolled me into school

Pretty much the title. Please bear with me because this is a long, crazy story but I hope it makes sense.

I moved states when i was 12, and i was supposed to start 6th grade that summer. My parents never enrolled me. They said that the public schools were too dangerous, and they didn't want to homeschool me because my mom and dad lived at two different places so i was back and forth between houses, so they said it was too difficult. I was 12, I didn't understand why they weren't renrolling me.

This went on for years, as I got older i kept begging them to enroll me into school, but they never would. No family or anyone would help me because they kept telling everyone i was homeschooled, so no one questioned it.

My parents said that the school education system didn't work and I would learn better "life skills" in the real world and didn't want me to be "indoctrinated and brainwashed" by the school. I tried to enroll myself but I couldn't because i was a minor. By the time i was old enough to realize what was happening, i was afraid to tell anyone the truth because I didn't want my parents to get in trouble.

My parents forced me to miss middle school and high school and there wasn't anything I could do about it. Fast forward to now, im 20, i can't apply to any jobs because I don't have any highschool experience, i don't have anything to put on a resume, I don't have a ged, diploma, anything. i have no idea what to do with my life, it was stolen from me before i even got to live it.

Does anyone have absolutely any advice or any suggestions on what i can do about this situation? I don't even know how to get a ged because you at least have to have proof you dropped out or attended a school, I think. If anyone could suggest any help I would greatly appreciate it. This is a tough and random and unordinary circumstance but it's my real life. I am also no longer in this situation or living with them so I'm finally just trying to fix my life from this point. Thank you to everyone that took the time to read this.

Submitted February 09, 2024 at 04:40PM by crystallvrs https://ift.tt/cbWQr2F