5 September 2010, 1:51 pm
Basically last summer I was meant to be taking a gap year and just spending a day a week doing life drawing in order to build up a portfolio for art college this year to do a fine art course. I started off doing this for a month but i got very bored as i realized i missed the education system-strangely and that i wanted to go to a school where i would meet lots of new people so in october my mum and I searched around for a new school that would accept me so late and the one that would was one which was an hour away from home, we went to see it and although it was a bit of a shit hole and so far away i just felt it was the place for me! The head master accepted me right away and said i could start the next day- i was 16 and going into year 12 to do A levels- Art, Photography and English Lit. As soon as I started I met a whole new group of people who are now really close friends... i struggled through english as i found a big part of it a bore, i was lucky enough to have one good teacher who was quite mean and one rubbish teacher who hadnt even read the book!! i loved art and photography as my teachers had a lot of faith in me and i was really free to do what i wanted to. Quite early on i fell into a habbit of missing school, it was so far away and when i did go id often get distracted, throughout the year i was threatened to be kicked out due to my absences and lack of dedication. My eng teacher also had said that she thought i wouldnt to very well in my exam, I sat my exams and did very little revision and felt i had not done very well. I foolishly missed one lesson right at the end of the year when they had told me i really needed to make it to every lesson, i went away to thailand with family and when we got back there was a message on the answer machine from my head master saying he saw no reason for me to come back next year. I then received my results, having forgotten about them as it had seemed i wouldnt be going back anyway to my surprise i got an A in art, a B in photography and a B and C in english. I also received an enrolement form but i dont know if i want to go back to do my a2s now after everything and the distance from here to the school instead i would concentrate on making music as i have been offered studio time free and i would take up life drawing again amongst other things. is this a really stupid thing to do, my parents are saying i really should go back but id like to get some more advice. Are there maybe other options?... Read More »
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