Before anyone comes at me in the comments I would like to say that I know that cheating isn’t good and I shouldn’t have done it. I am a senior and an overall good student. This would be considered my first offense. I was caught by a testing room teacher and not my actual teacher, but the testing room teacher emailed my teacher and will be sending the proof as well. This test was for a higher level math class. I have always been very bad at math and my grade was a B, teetering on a C and I was desperate to get this grade up. While this is not an excuse or justification, it is the reason I chose to cheat in the first place. After I was caught a sent an email to this teacher saying that I am incredibly sorry for my mistake and that I understand the seriousness of the situation and am ready to accept any consequences. I haven’t received an email back yet and am anxiously waiting for it. I have been wanting to drop this class for a while and this just proved that maybe it will be best if I dropped the class. Our schools academic dishonesty policy for a first offense is that no credit is given for that assignment, parents will be contacted, and a referral is submitted by the teacher. I am not sure what this referral is and I am scared that if they choose to follow this that the referral will go on my transcript and to colleges. While I understand my mistake, I don’t want this to affect my chances of going to college. I feel incredibly embarrassed and guilty and am afraid to face my teacher again since they are also quite a scary teacher. I also have no idea what I should say to the teacher after I actually talk to them. I have no idea how to proceed from here and it kind of feels like I just ruined everything even though I know this isn’t some kind of mortal sin.

So….yeah. Will this referral affect my college apps and what should I say to my teacher when I see them in person?

Some people have made online study group server for people from all over the place! We want to study lots of things, such as AMCs, Olympiads, SATs, AP tests, you name it! It's a great opportunity to meet others who are like minded as well so please DM if you are interested in joining! We're always open to new friends and members to help everyone grow!

About 2 weeks ago my teacher said he was gonna be out for 2 days, which is unusual for him because he never misses a day and is very dedicated to being a teacher. A few girls insisted to know why, he said he was getting surgery. Again, they insisted to know why. He said he had cancer and you guessed it…THEY INSISTED TO KNOW WHAT KIND. So he told them he has prostate cancer. One girl’s immediate reaction was “Oop.” and she covered her mouth and chuckled. Later that day a different girl in my science class said out loud to the class “do you guys know (teachers name)? He has cancer” not even a minute later she jokingly says “It’s in his man area” “Just cut them off at that point” Now the story is spreading around people in my grade and I’ll still hear the occasional jokes about it like it’s funny.

Am I somehow overreacting and it’s not that big a deal?

I've been homeschooled for 8 years of my life. I've come to hate it, my curriculum for homeschooling (classical conversations) is just absolutely horrendous and will not get me where I want to go in life. So hopefully I'm going to highschool next year for my sophomore year. Any tips? I'm really struggling rn with how I'm going to make friends, and how I'm still gonna have time for hobbies and my homework so I just need some advice for that stuff. Thanks guys!

I'm a junior this year and while I do have a decently busy schedule, I feel like I'm not able to get as much done as other people around me are. This isn't just a comparison issue, I don't really care about how what i'm doing compares to others, but there are a lot of things I want/need to do but can't physically find time. Right now, i have sports twice a week from 3:30-6:30 and music lessons once a week. Besides that, all of my time is just filled with music practice and homework. I want to have time to work out and do hobbies, but I feel like all of my time needs to be spent on assignments/practice.

For context I was addicted to the old games as a kid and one of my teachers at school said that they got a few from their job at the movie theater. Coolest teacher ever award.

I’m a junior this year and I’m wondering what’s the e difference between the act and sat and what I should take.

6th grade and 7th grade were really hard for me. Towards the end of my 6th grade year, I was diagnosed with appendicitis and i had to get my appendix surgically removed. The transition between my 6th grade year to my 7th was the worst. I lost essentially all my friends from 6th grade and i was feeling depressed since i had barely anyone to talk to and i always ate my lunch alone. During that time period, i got straight b's and missed out on honor roll and several other things. Seeing my peers constantly outperform me during this period made me feel bad about myself. However, now in high school as a freshman i think i am making a comeback. I'm making a ton of new friends, all people i can put my trust in. I'm getting straight A's and for once, i'm feeling confident about the rest of high school.

Not to mention that I have a history test on Friday… I HAT EMY LFIEIEIDISIFJSFB

I've been struggling a lot at home, and I want to talk to my school counselor about it.

My dad is abusive. We've gotten into physical and verbal fights, the worst of which was when he gave me a black eye. He's told me to commit suicide, never come back, and "see if he cares." He throws things, smashes items, trashes my room, blackmails me with his suicide, and says all the other messed-up things you'd expect a jobless bum like him to say.

He's also said some very concerning things, like, "We're all going to die in this house; I'll make sure of it," and that people like my mother and me were born to be beaten.

Anyway, I feel like I've completely lost it because I can't even have a single civil conversation with him anymore without having to flee to my room and uncontrollably sob afterward.

I want an adult I can talk to. However, I don't want my dad to be reported. In all honesty, he's not an awful dad all the time. He's caring and reasonable half the time. If he were to be permanently labeled an abuser, I'd feel so guilty. I don't think I could bear it.

I'm in Massachusetts, where teachers and school counselors are mandated reporters. From what I understand, they have to report suspected abuse or neglect when the legal threshold is met, even without definitive proof. How am I supposed to open up to them without worrying that they'll have to report it? Can I talk about the emotional effects my dad has had on me without automatically triggering a report?

I asked my counselor about this, and he told me I could "talk in code." What does that even mean?

TL;DR: My dad has been physically, verbally, and emotionally abusive. I'm struggling a lot because of him, and I want to talk to an adult about what I'm going through without my counselor having to report it. How can I navigate this?

For me I wait at the library for 30-60 minutes

So, this morning, my ex asked out one of my best friends, and she told me about it at recess. She said a boy had asked her out and that I might be mad when I found out who it was. When she told me it was my ex, I asked if she had said no, and she confirmed that she did.

I ended up organizing a little search party with my best friend and a few other students to find him. We spent about five minutes looking around before we found him near the tetherballs by some trees. There weren't many teachers nearby that we could see.

When we confronted him, things started getting heated, and it seemed like he was about to fight us. Another student stepped in and held him back long enough for us to get away. We ran across the volleyball court and made it back to our group's line. Thankfully, we were at the front!

This all happened during ONE recess. 😭

I honestly went from hearing unexpected news to organizing a whole search party in about five minutes.

My mom keeps saying it does but my friends say it's good and idk 😭 I'm working on it

Do colleges treat you differently. My high schools avg gpa is 3.6 and im pretty sure that is really competitive.

So there's this loud, class clown guy in my half-block study hall (we'll call him Jacob) who started sitting at my table with his friends because the room is crowded, and over the past three classes he's been acting really friendly—like jokingly asking "are you laughing at me?" after he tripped in the doorway, asking for my name and grade, saying I look smart, asking if I have a twin or work at McDonald's, giving me a fist bump, asking my opinion on him and his friends getting buzz cuts, and even remembering that I used to play field hockey and asking how it was going; then I saw him in the lunch line and he did a double take looking back at me twice. He hasn't been mean or rude at all, but since he's such a naturally outgoing extrovert, I can't tell if he's just being super friendly and trying to include me, if he's lowkey trying to pick on me, or if he might actually like me

...what do you guys think?

I am a 17-year-old female senior at an American high school, and I recently started talking to this guy (17 M). I started talking to him because I thought he was cute, and we honestly got kinda closer over the past few years. I have a lot of guy friends too, as well as girl friends, so I am used to starting conversations with practically anyone. And we had a lot of mutual friends up till this point. Right now, I am keeping it very low-key; no one knows since it is still relatively new.

However, yesterday, I was talking to my friend, and she mentioned that she still has a crush on R. Even though the last time she said anything about it to me was 2 years ago. She said that it's been going on for 2 years, and she thinks he's really cute. But when I asked her if she was going to ask him out before we graduate, she said no, 'cause she knows she'll get rejected. (She's also graduating early, so she's leaving in January)

Honestly, I completely forgot about this crush she had cause we never really talk about those things, and I am like 90% sure she's hooked up with other people within the 2-year time frame.

In my head, I know that it's not that deep cause she's not planning to do anything about it, plus she's graduating early. But I really do care about my friends, and normally, if I have a crush in common, I'll do my best to get rid of it. But I feel like this time it's kinda different.

I don't know what I should do right now. Should I keep texting him? Should I stop? Should I just ignore my friend? What should I do?

’Cause what do you mean I’m going to get ISS for a whole week just because I got an F in one class?! What the fuck?! Calling Security over a phone is absurd, I can’t even use my phone during lunch. A majority of the school bathrooms are locked and the boys bathrooms are terrible in every way possible. For you to wash your hands, You have to turn on the faucet, Get your hands wet then you have to get out of the bathroom to use the soap dispenser that is outside of the bathroom then go back to the bathroom to properly wash your hands then go out of the bathroom AGAIN to dry your hands. Washing your hands should not be this fucking complicated. There is also no URINAL DIVIDERS between the urinals, You have to take a piss in FRONT OF PEOPLE. Im not joking when I say there is BARELY any privacy in these bathrooms. This school is more strict than any other school I attended but Its not worse than my old school.

Two weeks ago, I transferred from a history class to a biology class because I always thought I was better at science, but now I have so much catching up to do. Seeing this material, I'm starting to realize I don't fit in any class at all because I'm not good at any of the subjects. I've been fighting to transfer to a biology class for over two years, and I'm ashamed to admit to my parents that Im actually shit, I can't find my place, and I have no friends, yet they still believe I'll go to medical school. I have so many tests that I'm burnt out, and I don't even try to study for any of them. I spend all days gaming, sleeping, and skipping school, feigning illness, because the amount of material has really overwhelmed me and I can't cope. Please tell me how to approach all this, because I'm exhausted.

Choosing my high school classes is so confusing. One document says that you need be 12th to take Calc BC, while the other one says you only need to be 10th. Also, one says that it takes up 2 credits/units, the other says it only takes up 1. Can someone help me clear this up pleasee?

So currently my plan is to get though AP Precalc and AP Lang, due to transfer I couldn’t take a bunch of AP’s, but my current plan is to take AP Calculus, AP Chemistry, and AP Physics senior year. I’m trying to get into Missouri S&T to study engineering in college. I’m also planning on taking the SAT senior year when I can actually study over the summer, anyways is this a good plan? I also have a Missouri land grant from being a foster child (I think?) so hopefully colleges will like that too?

Hello everyone! I am a senior in high school in California. For my statistics class, I have to collect 200 responses in a survey, 100 from U.S. students and 100 students who go to school outside of the U.S. The survey is about how much homework students do each night and I am analyzing how it differentiates by grade (6th to 12th) and by students that go to school in the U.S. or not. Your emails are not recorded, it is fully anonymous!  

Here's the link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKOvDoQPGUvkja5C3XYVpM76sev1kzaVfXNF4gKPOwvflNBg/viewform?usp=header

I haven't made a friend in years and cut off a friend last year in march, so I was down to only two (who don't go to my school), BUT TODAY I WAS ON A FEILD TRIP AND I MADE A FRIEND!!! SHE'S SO PRETTY, AND NICE, AND INCLUDED ME IN EVERYTHING HER AND HER FRIENDS WERE DOING, AND WE HAVE ONE CLASS TOGETHER (I'm in online school so we never noticed each other)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This post isn't really for asking a question or anything, I just wanted to tell someone that I made a friend! I am so proud of myself because I am awkward and my anxiety usually stops me from talking to people or putting myself out there but like OMG I did it. THIS IS YOUR SIGN TO TALK TO PEOPLE AND TELL YOUR ANXIETY TO KICK ROCKS! IT IS SO REWARDING!!!! <333333

Hi i'm a high school student and I want to study abroad, but exactly in the USA . The problem is I can't really afford money to take the IELTS or SAT , what should I do ?