Jessica Alba

How can I convince my mom to change schools? I\’m really stressed out?

I’m really stressing about my high school. I have no friends and I’m doing miserably in all my courses. It is not my home school but my mom is making me go there for a tech and enriched program. I despise tech and I hate waking up early to travel all the way to this school every morning. There is a school nearby that some of my friends attend, and it has many programs that I would like, considering the fact that I want to study law. The school I want to attend has a Law program in partnership with a university and law firms. It also has many other programs that I would be willing to take part of. The school I currently attend is deteriorating everything in my life from grades to social life. I’m depressed and can’t stay focused on school work because of the constant thought of missing out on a great opportunity at my doorstep. My mom won’t let me go to this school because she thinks the students that attend that school are trouble, and she thinks that I will turn out like them. I’ve spoken to her about the issues, and the pros of the school I want to attend, also the fact that my friends at the school I want to attend are no where near that road to trouble. Currently, attending this “great school” that I do, everything is actually going wrong. I’m getting bad grades, I have no friends because they are all either complete jackasses or they smoke constantly. I always get the urge to skip class and just hang out outside alone rather than going to school. This is the school that I smoked for the first time at, and always get the craving to smoke again because of the sheer boredom and depression I face. Not to mention that I also showed my mom these cysts that I have been getting on my skin, and she claims they’re from too much stress, but at the same time, is not willing to help me out of this situation, and claims that the school I attend is a really good one, when really, almost everyone who graduated attends a community college, or a low ranking university, and eventually drop out. I also do not get enough sleep and I don’t eat out of depression. I don’t know what to do, I’ve never skipped school before, or gotten high, but I don’t know how much longer I can resist that temptation if I keep attending this school, and eventually it will become a habit. All I want to do is attend a school nearby with a great program that suits my career path of becoming a lawyer perfectly, and as a bonus I can be with a couple of positively influencing group of friends and not go down the wrong path. I’ve told my mom a lot of this besides the facts of skipping and smoking. I also told her that I wouldn’t go hang out with bad influences in the school I want to attend because I already have really good friends there. I am in grade 9 by the way. I don’t know what to do, and I don’t know how much longer I can take this before hitting rock bottom.