Distance education still going to give me a proper career?

-I don't feel safe at school anymore due to certain incidents that have happened in and out of school. I suffer from depression and anxiety and I am not sure what to do about school?



I am in all the top classes and school is just getting to the stage that I have to fake sick or 'miss the bus' to get out of it.



I want a good job and all but I just cant go to the school to get my education.



I want to do distance education but I am too scared to ask my parents because they will probably think that its not a proper education and that they don't want to leave me home alone to do it.



I really am too scared to go to school but I don't want to have no career.



Please help because I need help fast!Here is an extract from a previous post I answered on here:



My sons are home educated (but not with an Online School) . They love the freedom that Home Education has given them with free time to take on other hobbies and interests, time that they would not have had with School. For example my eldest son has started his own business and is able to devote a lot of time to getting that off the ground as well as his other learning. With concentrated learning (one to one) you need far less hours than you do within a School setting - I have heard as much as 5 times less.



Some online Schools in the UK are:

http://www.firstcollege.co.uk/

http://www.briteschool.co.uk/

http://www.interhigh.co.uk



There are also Companies providing curriculum packs for Year 8 and other school years if that is the way you want to go, (cheaper than Online Schools) have a look at this website here:



http://www.structuredhomelearning.com -Under the Secondary section you will find curriculum year packs for Years 7, 8 & 9..



One of my sons came out of School in Year 8 and the other in Year 5 and have really enjoyed learning at home, it's given them much more freedom and time to take on other interests as the amount of time they have needed to spend on their learning at home has been far less than at School. My son that came out in Year 8 went on to take all his GCSE's and A Levels at home. Your Parents don't need to be Teachers at all - (I'm not)



Other Home Education websites that might be of use are:

http://www.education-otherwise.org/

http://www.thenuk.com/

http://www.home-education.org.uk/

http://home-ed.info/



Apart from online Schools there are other ways to learn at home.A cheaper option than online schooling for years 8 & 9 could be the Structured Home Learning website

which has all the curriculum material for each School year.

I'm not sure how old you are, but if you are near the end of KS3, you may soon be able to go into KS4 (GCSEs). With GCSE's there are correspondence courses available through NEC, ICS and Oxford Home Learning. This courses have Tutors that mark your work as you go through the course.This way of learning didn't suit us, but it does suit some people. NEC and ICS courses can be bought with Tesco Club-card vouchers if you collect those at all.



Many Home Education groups have small learning groups where they share Tutors and the cost of this can be around 拢5 an hour. There are a number of these where I live and in most GCSE subjects and KS3 courses too. To find your local Home Education Group and see what they have to offer look here:

http://www.education-otherwise.org/local鈥?/a>



One of my sons at 13 was very self sufficient, and just wanted me to provide the books and resources for him to learn his work, my other son worked differently at the same age and wanted to work with me and have more of my input. Neither way of learning was right or wrong, just different according to their needs and you would need to look at this. If say your learning style is similar to my eldest son then maybe you won't need as much input from your Parents. Don't forget that even with being at School, your Parents are still having an input into your education, whether it be time helping with homework, attending Parents Meetings or funding you being at School, with travel costs, uniform, trips, resources etc, anyway.



Our learning has been relatively cheap, we use then internet a lot, there are some great websites available (google 'KS3 online' or KS3 resources') and a host of websites will come up in just about every subject. There are second hand text books available on Ebay and Amazon and we use the shared Tutors for a couple of subjects (not all). If you want to follow the National Curriculum or GCSE's this information can be downloaded online. The AQA website has a syllabus of all the subjects you need to learn for GCSE's ( so it is easy to buy the right books) and also past exam papers to practise with.



A great (But not free) resource for Maths is Conquermaths, where each maths lesson is broken down by a tutor in easy to explain steps. There is a discount for home educators.



The benefit of working from home is that you will not need as much time with your subjects as you do in School and many Home Educated children take their GCSE's early but take their subjects over 2/3 years. You will need to pay to take your GCSEs. - more here:



http://home-ed.info/gcse.htm



Also on that website you will also find on there other alternatives to GCSE's, and some other useful links.
School isn't for everyone and there are many children who find it difficult for all sorts of reasons so you are not alone by any means. Fortunately there are many other ways of getting an education, but you will need to sit down with your Parents and go through your options to get them on board.



Home Education is absolutely a proper education if that is what you want it to be. You can take any number of recognised qualifications such as GCSE's A Levels and Open University Courses too, even taking these early than you would at School.