I am not a high school dropout!

Since graduating, the only thing I've been really doing is working... every day, which I don't mind since I am getting paid. And I well rather get paid 8 hours a day for working than going to school for 8 hours retaining nothing (as I did.)

But it's hard explaining to people that I graduated early. Since I moved before senior year, I honestly do not keep in touch with any of my friends from Texas. And when I explain it to people up here to why I'm not in school they look kinda confused... Well, let us just say this... the Oklahoma education system is not as up to par as Texas. So, obviously, people see me at work, a teenager, who is working the day shift and they think that I AM A DROPOUT.

But let me break it down since NO ONE except for me understands how I did.

In Texas, the school district I was in requires 26 credits to graduate. I had already  24 credits. And to be a senior you have to have 22 credits. In Texas, they count a full-year course as a whole credit, and a half a year as a .5 (half credit).

But anyway, I moved up here, and moving here I looked at the classes I was required to take to graduate:

• US Gov (half year)
• Oklahoma history (which was so dang boring and hard to pay attention to) (half year)
• Algebra (full year)
• English 12 (full year)
• Some finance class that was mandatory for Broken Arrow Schools

But up here, they counted credits like this...

A full year of an English class is 2 credits, while at the end of the first semester of that same English class is only 1 credit. Weird. And to graduate up here you have to have 48 credits, (48/2=24 so technically 24) So I did the math with all of my credits, and I really only needed the credits to graduate, I didn't need any of the electives.  

So probably the 2nd week of school I went to see my counselor who opposed my whole well thought of a plan, and I never go into anything without knowing all the facts. And I had all the facts... I had everything I needed to graduate expect those classes listed above and passed all the state tests I needed in Texas, so I was not about to waste a whole year being fakey nice to all these people for my senior year! Well, the counselor strongly advised against it even when my mom called saying I could not handle it.

So then when she finally Ok'ed everything, I had to take 5 online classes. I took Government, OK history, English2 semester, Alg 2 semester, and the finance class all online. They were all the second-semester classes, so while at school taking the first semester parts for English and algebra I was put in stupid elective classes to fill my schedule since they don't allow seniors to leave early the way they did with my old school in Texas. 

So some days, I would be at school for 12 hours 8 hours at school, take a bus to another school for 4 hours and do my online classes there. 

I put a whole school year's work into 3 and 1/2 months.

Not that I owe anyone an explanation, I would just like to clarify to the customers who will never read this that I am not a high school dropout.