Anyone of you ever take K12 classes?

Bump,I really need to learn more about this before the end of summer

Do I have to leave the house? You only have to leave the house 2-4 times a year to take mandatory exams that normally take about 3 hours to do.

Do I have to meet an actual teacher IRL? No, but you will need to attend Live (not in person) Class Connects where you listen to the teacher and occasionally need to type in a chatbox if they ask you something.

How much time does it take to complete a grade? I'm not entirely sure I understand the question, so here's what might be your answer: If you want, you can complete all of the necessary work for all of your classes in under a month and simply relax for the rest of the year, or you could pace yourself and do only some work each day. It's all up to how you want to do it.

How much time do I spend a day/week on it? All you really need to do is; everyday log-in (to the school, not a class), once a week spend an hour in any class (This actually includes lab classes, so you can just sit there doing nothing in a lab class and get that hour), once a week K-mail someone (They'll tell you who when you join), and once a month have a class-connect with the same person you would be k-mailing, as well as the obvious make sure you aren't failing any classes.

Do I get a bunch of free time? You get an unreasonably large amount of free time.

Is there stuff like Summer breaks? Yes, all of the breaks that would be in a normal high-school will be given to you.

I hope these are the answers you were looking for, goodluck man!

I am unfamiliar with this thing you refer to as "K12." It sounds like something somewhere between home-schooling and online classes. I'll let others answer your questions regarding that.

I do know an awful lot about depression, however, being that it runs in my family and I have spent a lifetime dealing with it, myself. Regardless of what you decide to do with K12, be extremely wary of isolating yourself. The absolute worst thing you can do for your depression is giving in to the desire to remove yourself from social contact. If you want to feel "better," you need to get out of your house and interact with people. (Choose "happy" and "pleasant" people, if you can.)

Also, I would recommend that you regularly see a psychologist if one is available. The world would be a much better place if everyone had a good "Shrink" to help keep their heads "straight."

I have younger kids in the K12 program. Most of the work is online with the rest offline material provided to you. The only time I've had to take my kids somewhere is for testing (as mentioned in another post.) You do have to log 30~40 hours a week and there is an offsite teacher that will require work sent in via mail. Other that that, it is really an online public school. A plus is that it is accredited, so upon completion, you will receive an actual diploma and not a GED (which can be the case in some home school situations.)

EDIT: Also, yes. You get the summer off as well as time during other national holidays. Feel free to add my on Steam if you have any questions. While my kids are elementary age, I'm pretty familiar with the ends and outs of the program.

Your school probably hasn't done anything because you haven't reached out for help. I'm certainly not blaming you for not doing so. I was in Grade 10 when I "officially" got diagnosed with depression but it had been brewing for a long time before that. I did similar stuff to you. I didn't go to my classes but would instead sit in the library and hide out there all day avoiding anyone who knew me. My parents were not the kind to let me do that though. As soon as they found out they forced me into action (as in threatened to kick me out and disown me if I didn't go to school properly).

I agree with Khalaq in that isolating yourself is not the answer. If you just don't like people in general, that's fine. You don't need to be all social and outgoing. However, the world isn't going to let you do this forever. If you get used to this isolated life where you do all your work online with minimal interaction, it will be extremely hard for you when you have to go out into society later. I really understand the yearning to be alone and to not talk to anyone in real life. I'm still depressed and I still wish I could just hole up in my room and not venture out. But it's really not good for you. It's actually amazing what people will do for you if you just ask for help. I tried to struggle through depression by myself because I didn't want to talk to anyone about it and I didn't want anyone telling me what to do. But just reach out to a school counsellor. They'll talk with all your teachers and arrange special accommodations for you. In university, my counselor arranged to let me take a midterm later and skip out on an essay that I'd missed the deadline for (the next essay would just be worth more marks). She referred me to a psychiatrist for medication and therapy... and it all helped.

About the K12 stuff... I haven't encountered a program called K12 but I'm pretty sure you're just talking about online classes. I've done that before too. Not because of depression but because I wanted to work while I finished some prerequisites for a university program. I found a really rare program that allowed me to do everything online and through mail. I would follow lessons that were posted online and do the homework that was posted there too. I would hand it in electronically either with a word document or scanned documents. They let me choose my own "supervisor" who is someone not in the family who would take responsibility for my tests. They'd send the tests to her and she'd watch me do the tests to make sure I didn't cheat. A program that lets you take tests like that is REALLY rare though. Usually, it's like Desertmoon said, you do all the work online but have to go to the premise for examination.