GED?

Yessssssss people

I am going to work full time for the next 3-4 years saving up money, once a week theres a nightschool and im going to get all my highschool through that and home work, then after all that is done im going to go to a Academy and do the online degree work and work CFI then go for there, if that doesnt happen I'll either fall back on ATC or Long Haul truck driving until i can find a CFI job
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Man Wow. You HAVE to stay in school. No matter what it takes...if you start to lose concetration think of where you want to be in 20 years: The cockpit of an airliner. I've had my share of rough times in school, but if you can I would reccomend getting involved in a club, the band or anything of the school to help keep that incentive alive. I just finished up my first year in marching band and I'm already counting down the days until band camp starts. If you need to, print off a picture of your favorite airliner from airliners.net and stick it in your binder at school to remind you why you HAVE to stay in school. If you quit school, you will pretty much find yourself in a position which you regretted leaving high-school. Also, like Iain said... slow down and enjoy life, my Dad never tells me how much he wish he could be 15 or 16 again just to be young...I hope you deciede the right way to go !
 
argh i keep telling you guys im going to friggin get it through night school and home school, what is bad about that?? its just for people who have problems in school maybe, geeezus

a highschool diploma is a highschool diploma....
 
I say if you can take 100 level college courses (non-remedial), then go ahead and get the GED if you really want to. If I could go back and do it again I wouldn't have even gotten the GED or HS diploma, I would have just enrolled full-time in community college (I was already going part-time during HS). In Arizona, with enough college credit you can transfer over to a public four year school with no HS diploma or GED.

Value of my last year of high-school was zero. Junior year was somewhat of value, but only because I got about 12 college credits that year through AP and co-op classes. You can learn your social lessons at college also.

I would complete college as quickly as possible, I would not get any ratings beyond my private without that college diploma first.
 
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What's so bad about just finishing high school the most direct way??
 
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I hear ya loud and clear. In the big picture most employers don't even care if you have a HS diploma or GED. Heck, even most colleges don't care.
Look at what you're doing now though. You may not necessarily be taking a shortcut but your going about things to make it easy for you. Most jobs aren't going to make it easy/convenient for you. HS is more than getting good grades, etc. HS teaches you about sticking it out because 95% of jobs won't say, "You can't sit in our office, so go do our work at home" or anything like that. Stick it out/gut it out because there will be more tests like this and in your later years, they dictate food, rent, etc.
 
dude just buck up a little bit. High School is not difficult at all. Anybody with half a brain can make it through High School.

If you cant make it through High School classes (which are cake by the way) how do you expect to make it through college? I have been way more challenged by college then HS.
 
I'm in the same boat as JD, I self taught myself through highschool (and actually DID it). That is what can make the difference right there, GED or not, actually learning what is taught in highschool. Learning on your own or in highschool, it prepares you for college, and without it college will eat you alive. If you think learning on your own time is going to be a quick way out you've got another thing coming. Compared to highschool it's much harder. Highschool was a breeze for me, I didn't even study, went 2 days a week, and got As. Granted I was a freshman. Now home schooling on the other hand, I had to study my ass off. If you can't sit down very long in a classroom, don't expect to get through home schooling nice and easy, same goes with online degrees. It takes a LOT of dedication and modivation, more so than highschool, and is soooo easy to put it off until tomorrow.

You say that you've talked to councilors and older people with experience, but did you LISTEN? Because it doesn't look like it. You're going to have to work your ass off, and wish you stayed in highschool and did a little bit of studying to keep up. You're only a freshman, how far behind can you be? Get a tutor, and stick it through until the end.

So in conclusion, I say you cowboy the $&@^ up and do it, you'll be glad you did later. I am.
 
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