Will I get expelled…and tips for getting my life together if you have any

I (16F) am currently a student in my senior year at an international school.

I’m not a very good student conduct-wise, and have had 3 academic integrity infractions since I started high school, for skipping a test, forging an email, and using AI to write parts of an essay. I was suspended last week for this, though it remained internal and will not be reported to universities unless they explicitly ask.

I was genuinely remorseful each time, and you would’ve thought I’d have learned by now, but I’m currently in the IB Diploma Programme and have been really burned out, unfocused and unmotivated for the past year. I submitted two partially plagiarised essays as first drafts and didn’t get caught, all the whole fully intending to get my act together and fix them before the final deadline.

The deadline is March 15th, and I only just fixed the essays in a panic this week, after being unmotivated for months. However, my school has already uploaded the old drafts to the IB database, something which cannot be undone, and I neglected to communicate the academic integrity issues to my school. To make matters worse, I’ve been absent and tardy for many days this year due to burnout, and never really bothered despite the school’s repeated warnings — until now.

I’m planning to see if I can drop the IB diploma and take my school’s regular high school curriculum, as these plagiarised essays will not be graded/part of my curriculum if I do this. Even so, as I’m ultimately at the mercy of a school that I already don’t have a good track record at, are they likely to expel me straight up rather than letting me switch curriculums?

I never at any point believed what I was doing to be right. In fact, i’m truly remorseful and have tried to change- I know it’s a pathetic excuse, as befits a pathetic human being, and I don’t know what’s wrong with me. (I do have an Asperger’s and ADHD diagnosis from when I was younger, but to attribute my moral degeneracy to that is exploitative and beyond low- but would it help them go easy on me?) I have strong extracurriculars and am a high honour student; i guess I could say that I broke these rules to try to maintain that somehow, even when I’m just so tired of everything. I like to believe I’m a good person, but is this enough to prevent an expulsion? Or anything that could terribly impact my future?

Thanks so much for reading, and sorry about the rant. I’m just so lost rn and would appreciate any advice.

Submitted March 13, 2024 at 10:34AM by ob-ob-mouse https://ift.tt/SlwtHZm