I saw your thread on a different forum saying you wanted to go to public school and your dad agreed but your mom didn't. You can accomplish a lot at a good public school, and here's some ammo for you. My son went to public school and now he's an engineering professor at USC doing cutting-edge biotechnology research. He had a year of college credit when he graduated from high school because of all the AP classes he took. We made sure we lived in the best school district in town and that definitely helped.

Wow, that's great! Thanks Carolyn, I think my mom is slowly coming to a yes!

I guess I should make it clear that I put a high priority on education, and did everything I could to instill the same values in my son (and it worked lol). But at the same time, you need to maintain a good balance with the other aspects of life so your child can grow up to have a mentally healthy, happy and well-adjusted life. Based on the threads in the other forum it sounds like Haimovfids isn't getting that balance. He's spending something like 14 hours a day at school, and recently his mother was planning to sell his birds at a flea market because she thought he wasn't spending enough time socializing with other kids. It's pretty hard to socialize or develop any other kind of personal interests if you don't have any free time, and there are ways to meet your educational needs and have time for other things too.

That post made me tear up a little because I finally know someone who accually understands what I'm going through!
I really hope they will put me in public school, I honestly hate my school, and I feel like I can do so much better in a public school. Before my parents enrolled me in my school, I convinced them that I wanted to go to public school and we drove there and she tried to enroll me but we came a little late so when we arrived home, she called one of my reletives and they told her such negative stuff that she won't dare even hear me out

But with some help from my father, It shouldn't be that hard (I hope)

I still think it's the best way to meet and socialize with other people. Taking your birds out of the picture would not help in the least. If that is her incentive for you to meet new people while you were just at school for 14 hours, that is asking a lot from you.

Your mother is trying to do what's best for you but I don't think she's looking at the big picture. At least not in the same way I do. Yes it's important to have a good education, but there's much more to education than the stuff you learn in school. Everything you do in life is educational in one way or another, and it takes more than book learning to function well in society. For one thing you have to learn how to make decisions and manage your own life, and you can't do that if almost every minute of the day is regimented.

Factual knowledge is important, but it's even more important to have the intellectual curiosity that makes you want to understand how things work and drives you to learn new things. You don't instill that curiosity in a kid by locking him up in a school that he hates, you do it by letting him pursue subjects that interest him. Parents can do a lot to teach a child how to use their knowledge to think and analyze situations, which will do much, much more for the kid than cramming his head full of dry facts.

There's a long, long thread on this board that's mostly about budgies, but there's also a section in the middle where I talk to a girl who is in a situation sort of like yours. I suggest that you read that part of the thread, there's a lot that I think is relevant to you. It starts at viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1342&start=40 about 5 posts down the page and goes on for a couple of pages. Feel free to show it to your mother if you want to.

Wow, I thought I was reading my own posts!

I am very stressed out, I have anxiety and OCD, my school finished so late that when I come home I skip dinner and fall asleep on the chair
Today is Sunday and it's only 8:35pm but I feel like its 2 in the morning! I don't feel comfortable when I speak to my mother about switching schools
I like talking to my dad! He is very understanding and he may have the ability to convince my mom

Then show it to your dad if you want to, or print it out and give it to him. It's not healthy for a kid (or anyone) to be that stressed out, and you can't learn well under those conditions either.

A little update,
My mom drove the carpool today and she noticed that I was a little down so she asked if I was coming home late tomorrow (9:00pm) well that just made me feel worse so she said she was going to pick me up early tomorrow

When we arrived at school everyone left besides for my mom and I, so I pretty much lost it and I expressed myself to her (which I was always afraid to do) so I explained to her how it's not fair to lock a kid up in school for 14 hours a day and cramming his head full of dry facts, and my mom replied "but everyone eles here is so coming late" so I kept talking but then I couldn't take it anymore so I just stormed out of the car
I think I overdid it, but i have been holding this inside my head for almost the beginning of July and I just let it out

I think she will put me in public school because from the corner of my eye, she saw the big picture
Let's hope I get out of this school next year