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This issue might be a bit different than most, but I believe I'm in need of necessary aid aswell. I'm seventeen years old and a remarkable student in school, now a senior. The summer before my junior year in high school, my father decided to move us with my grandparents from Florida to south Georgia. This completely deprived my education, robbing me of the five AP (advanced placement in which I can attain college credits in high school), and forcing me to take their freshman courses over in my senior year. This is due to the difference in educational standards (south Georgia's 9th grade courses are roughly the equivalent of seventh and eight grade in the school's I had attended in Florida). Georgia will not recognize this and now I'm wasting half my high school education "making up" for what I already did. In this time I was able to take ten AP courses aswell as preliminary courses I could've taken to prepare me for my future major in orchestral performance.
As you can see, I had, and have, no intention to drop out of high school or take any irrational actions I don't have to take. I'm a very ascetic person and I work hard for everything I posess. I work five to eight hours at a fast-food restaurant after each school day and then run seven miles. It has become very routine and I find the only certain contentness with this schedule.
For some insight to parents, my mother passed away when I was seven. My father, a high school dropout, has been an addict since the age of thirteen, spending the majority of his life as a bartender. Parties, drugs, cars, and a new girlfriend to take advantage of Every night. To this day, he still uses drugs, he only gets better at hiding it. Now, he has become very eccentric of his past, and believes he deserves a "break". Since his parents offered to set him up with a twenty-six hundred square foot house with an oversized pool, a pool house, an acre of land, he was more than willing to move out to south Georgia. Little did he care about the fact that I'm still in the middle of high school. It's been a year and a month, he's still unemployed at the age of forty-seven, and spends each and every day sitting on the couch watching television. To support his lifestyle, he runs off of the government funds he is provided with my the fact that he is a widowed father of two children.
The true issue here is that my father is too irresponsible to recognize the necessity for me to move back. Not only for educational reasons, but for social reasons aswell. Teens here are completely immoral and ignorant, let alone any ability to be a real friend. They depend on alcohol, drugs, and sex and find them the only means of having fun. Therefor I'm stuck as a seveteen year old with literally no one to talk to except the customers at my work place. Throughout each day at school, I sit at four different desks and speak a series of "yes ma'am, no ma'am" and "yes sir, no sir".
For what I work for, and how I carry myself, I don't think I deserve to tolerate this social and educational deprevation. I have my whole future mapped out, and allowing me to move back to my old city in Florida would make everything meaningful and contributive towards my plans. Not only that, but I wouldn't have to tolerate my father's lazy influence and belief that his current drug abuse and womanizing, as he has stated in a very authorative manner, is how to be a "man". At the age of seveteen, I take little more illegal action than falsifying "proof of Florida residency" in a school registration form in order for this all to happen (according to personal research). I will be provided with housing and food by my friends mother of which my father is close friends to, and she is more than financially capable of taking me in. So the question is: if my father is unwilling to let me persue this idea, what's going to be there for me when I pack up, leave, and find a way to register for school on my own? If he won't comply, I see myself leaving within a week of his denial.
As you can see, I had, and have, no intention to drop out of high school or take any irrational actions I don't have to take. I'm a very ascetic person and I work hard for everything I posess. I work five to eight hours at a fast-food restaurant after each school day and then run seven miles. It has become very routine and I find the only certain contentness with this schedule.
For some insight to parents, my mother passed away when I was seven. My father, a high school dropout, has been an addict since the age of thirteen, spending the majority of his life as a bartender. Parties, drugs, cars, and a new girlfriend to take advantage of Every night. To this day, he still uses drugs, he only gets better at hiding it. Now, he has become very eccentric of his past, and believes he deserves a "break". Since his parents offered to set him up with a twenty-six hundred square foot house with an oversized pool, a pool house, an acre of land, he was more than willing to move out to south Georgia. Little did he care about the fact that I'm still in the middle of high school. It's been a year and a month, he's still unemployed at the age of forty-seven, and spends each and every day sitting on the couch watching television. To support his lifestyle, he runs off of the government funds he is provided with my the fact that he is a widowed father of two children.
The true issue here is that my father is too irresponsible to recognize the necessity for me to move back. Not only for educational reasons, but for social reasons aswell. Teens here are completely immoral and ignorant, let alone any ability to be a real friend. They depend on alcohol, drugs, and sex and find them the only means of having fun. Therefor I'm stuck as a seveteen year old with literally no one to talk to except the customers at my work place. Throughout each day at school, I sit at four different desks and speak a series of "yes ma'am, no ma'am" and "yes sir, no sir".
For what I work for, and how I carry myself, I don't think I deserve to tolerate this social and educational deprevation. I have my whole future mapped out, and allowing me to move back to my old city in Florida would make everything meaningful and contributive towards my plans. Not only that, but I wouldn't have to tolerate my father's lazy influence and belief that his current drug abuse and womanizing, as he has stated in a very authorative manner, is how to be a "man". At the age of seveteen, I take little more illegal action than falsifying "proof of Florida residency" in a school registration form in order for this all to happen (according to personal research). I will be provided with housing and food by my friends mother of which my father is close friends to, and she is more than financially capable of taking me in. So the question is: if my father is unwilling to let me persue this idea, what's going to be there for me when I pack up, leave, and find a way to register for school on my own? If he won't comply, I see myself leaving within a week of his denial.
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