my f!cked up online school is failing students: an angry thread

school "started" august 3rd. our classes were supposed to be uploaded by then and students would be allowed to work ahead and school officially started on august 12. not a single class showed up until a few days after august 12, but only spanish 2 was online

i thought it was no big deal since the admin who set students up to enroll in online school said that classes showing up later would not be counted against us. so i just kept working and then a few days later 4 of my 5 classes were online. i was missing algebra 2 until sept. 1

algebra 2 lessons had weird due dates. the course was set to end 30 years after i graduate high school, so i emailed the teacher to ask about the dates. the teacher didn't respond, someone else responded for the teacher saying that it was an error and they would fix it.

then i asked if i should just keep working as normal and also asked where the best place would be to ask questions. i was ignored. not a single live lesson has been held, only optional tutoring sessions that i could not even get ahold of until i called an administratior

after about a week i ended up dropping out of a class to reduce my work load. i spent 28 hours on a weekend working to get caught up on my schoolwork and i finally managed to get back on pace. on monday after that weekend, the system updated and set me behind 2 weeks in 2 classes

i carried on with the school work and eventually i wasn't able to understand the information in the lessons for AP chemistry. i emailed my teacher asking for help and i was ignored. i emailed a counselor at my normal high school asking to go back to school and i was denied.

my mom emailed the person who helped students enrolled in online school requesting for me to go back to school due to my failing mental health and failure to communicate with my teachers, to which he never responded.

he emailed a link that was meant to take us to live tutoring sessions. the link doesn't work. i emailed another counselor detailing everything that has gone wrong with online school, and the counselor of online school responded instead. we talked on the phone about everything

i told her that i've been very anxious and crying every day over school and that when i email my chemistry teacher i am ignored. she ended up having to email my chemistry teacher. the email was also sent to me and my mom, and there was no response from my teacher that i know of

then she asked how we could make online school work for me, since if i go back to school in person i would have to make up 5 weeks worth of schoolwork. i said that daily live lessons with assignments and tests would be more than perfect

i also told her that i would rather have a thirty minute or one hour zoom call than 30 pages of reading, 6 assignments and a test because i can't stay on pace if the lessons take 6 hours to complete. what she said next MADE ME LAUGH

she basically said that the school district purchased this online learning system and it is "not what we expected" and "we purchased a bad system". so now students like me, who are depending on grades to move forward, are paying the price.

she made me a schedule to follow that isn't meant to catch me up on schoolwork, it's meant to make me feel better mentally. i've been following that schedule and i'm still super far behind in all of my classes.

eventually my chemistry teacher emailed my mom a link to a zoom meeting along with the day and time it would be held so that i could get some assistance with chemistry. it was supposed to be yesterday. the teacher cancelled the meeting that morning.

while i was on the phone with the counselor she also said that she would look into whether or not it is possible for me to move into a regular chemistry class instead of AP chemistry, since she's not in charge of the system. so she contacted them and let me think about it.

i emailed her back saying that i want to move into a lower level chemistry class if it is possible, and asked if she had heard back from the people working with the online school yet. she had to email them for a second time today. she emailed them first on friday, sept. 25

i'm waiting to hear back but as of now i am f!cking ASTOUNDED by the lack of communication. i am FRUSTRATED and so are my parents. my dad is especially pissed off and is so close to marching up to the school and catching a case. it's bullsh!t and i'm miserable.

anyway if my school read this, no you didn't please don't suspend me i'm literally just retelling what f!cking happened. but i'll update this thread when i hear something back.