Hi so as the title says I'm planning to leave the sixthform I'm going to currently, to go college in September of this year. I'll be 17 when starting the course and 19 when it finishes.
You can skip the bit in the brackets because that's just me going off on a little tangent but if you want you can still read it.
I'm leaving sixthform as its mentally draining. [I know everyone says that but our sixthform is absolutely horrible, some context, we had our own common room but they shut it down because four Yr 12s were playing hide and seek during their frees, in the common room. It rains alot here and they said that we are not allowed to go to any other room during our frees, and will get punished if we do so, so we have to stay outside. All of the teachers have superiority complexs and if you question their method of teaching, or ask a simple question about the work they get offended, send you out or have a 20 minute screaming lecture at you. I've personally witnessed my teacher do this atleast 3 times a week. And that's only when I'm there to see it. If you ask for help they give you this disgusted look and blame you for not understanding, and they tell you to go figure it out yourself. When you miss a day to figure it out yourself they phone in to scream at you for missing school when you could've asked the teachers for help?? They call us adults when telling us to stop being childish but then tell us to stay in our places because we're children and should listen to the teachers (for the pettiest things, like walking outside during frees because we don't have a common room anymore). My mental health is deteriorating and I don't have anyone to talk to because even the school counsellor is condescending as hell and does not really care, I've been to her once and never will again. Everyone knows that she hates her job and couldn't care less about us. When kids went to our head of sixth form to change their subjects she would always give this ****ed off look and rudely speak to you, and even scream at you - she did to me even though I didn't do anything?. It's like all of the teachers just turned even more horrible as soon as we went up a year.]
My attendance has been deteriorating and I've been going to school less and less I've been so demotivated. Despite this my predicted grades for 2 of my subjects are A*, but one of them is a c. They've been on my backside about this and have been having so many meetings with me saying how disappointed they are in me, and how I SHOULD be doing better otherwise they're kicking me out, I'm not a very confrontational person and I've had multiple mental breakdowns due to this, and I've had one in lesson too over my time in Yr 12. I couldn't handle it anymore so I thought I should do myself a favour and save my mental health and myself the hassle by leaving.
I have 2 months left of sixth form and I'm refused to go. My logic is that I'm in the first year of sixthform so I won't be getting any qualifications when I leave, so what's the point in going to learn when I won't be gaining anything from it. I don't gain anything from it in general as I have to teach myself crap at home due to the teachers not being able to teach.
I haven't been in school in over a week. And I already have a guaranteed spot in the college I want to go to, my gcses grades are really high so they didn't look at my attendance or anything else at all apart from my art portfolio, which is up to their standards.
Today the school has decided to phone in and try to force me to come to school, even my mum wants me to go. I just don't see the point. I cannot even talk about my mental health to anyone because my mum doesn't believe in that sort of thing and the teachers just don't care at all. So what do I do, should I go to school and finish the last 2 months or should I stay home and then go college?
I've researched a little bit and there isn't any consequences for me missing school, it's just highly recommended that I go, and the worst that can happen is someone from the council comes and asks me why I'm not going in and child benefits get taken off. That's all that happens. Knowing this I'm fine staying home cause its only for 2 months and I'm going right back into education in September.
My mum, my sister and the school don't like my way of thinking. And as stated before are trying to force me to go, what should I do.