Help with Canadian Education please...

Help with Canadian Education please...

Forsaken111

#1Jun 21st, 2009

Hey, well I won't list the details, but basically I moved from Canada when I was in the 6th grade (I think I was around 12). Regardless where I moved to I did NOT GO to school for the following years and my only source of education was the internet. So from 12-17, I barely learned.

So now, I'm 17 and moving back to Canada. I think technically I'm in 11th grade.

So please tell me what I can do to catch up and hopefully make it into university? I really have a desire to learn but moving away really ruined my education, and I couldn't do a damn thing about it.

What will happen when I go apply at a school? How will I catch up from 6th-11th grade? Will they make me relearn everything or would I just learn 11th grade material? Could I get into university if I didn't go to 10-11 grade? Or is there a special study class or whatever?

Please, just tell me what to do.

Thanks.

CDNBear

Re: Help with Canadian Education please...

Jun 21st, 2009

First off, get off the internet, lol, this place is full of lies and misinformation. Then go straight to your nearest public library and start reading...

lone wolf

Re: Help with Canadian Education please...

Jun 21st, 2009

You write better than most high school grads so few problems there. You could do an equivalency exam to see just where you stand in maths and sciences.

Dexter Sinister

Re: Help with Canadian Education please...

Jun 21st, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Forsaken111

Hey, well I won't list the details, ...

I wish you would, that must be an interesting story. Where did you go that no education was available but the Internet was? I assume if you left Canada at age 12 or so it was a parental decision, not really your decision, and returning at 17, still legally a minor, is probably the same. But maybe not. Calling yourself Forsaken suggests a lot of possibilities. I'd like to hear your tale.

Wherever you end up in Canada, contact the local school board, they'll be in the phone book. They'll be able to assist you, that's their job. They'll have ways of assessing where you're at in your educational level and what you need to do to get caught up. You write pretty well, as the Wolf observed, so you probably don't have far to go. Good luck, and let us know how things turn out.

#juan

Re: Help with Canadian Education please...

Jun 21st, 2009

Yes. I would be interested in where you might have gone where there was no schooling available. Was it a language problem? Without malice, this was, and is the responsibility of your parents. Dexter Sinister has given good advice. Get you parents or guardian to help you follow that advice....Good luck...Let us know what happens.

aman12

Re: Help with Canadian Education please...

Jun 21st, 2009

It varies from province to province but in Alberta,NWT and Nunavut, you would be placed in Grade 12 courses(provided you could handle the course work). When you pass the diploma exam, you would be given retroactive credit for the pre-requisite courses. ie., you pass English 30, you get credit for English 10 and 20.

Forsaken111

Re: Help with Canadian Education please...

Jun 21st, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Dexter Sinister

I wish you would, that must be an interesting story. Where did you go that no education was available but the Internet was? I assume if you left Canada at age 12 or so it was a parental decision, not really your decision, and returning at 17, still legally a minor, is probably the same. But maybe not. Calling yourself Forsaken suggests a lot of possibilities. I'd like to hear your tale.

Wherever you end up in Canada, contact the local school board, they'll be in the phone book. They'll be able to assist you, that's their job. They'll have ways of assessing where you're at in your educational level and what you need to do to get caught up. You write pretty well, as the Wolf observed, so you probably don't have far to go. Good luck, and let us know how things turn out.

Well it's a fairly long 'tale', and not very joyful at that, but to summarize;

Parents got deported from Canada, I moved to Russia (where I am now) and I didn't acquire a passport because I already had 2 - and 2 is the limit - and because I don't want to go to the army, which is mandatory here. So the schools didn't/don't accept me because I have no Russian passport. Sad but true.

So you think the equivalency exam is the way to go? I think obviously it would show that I missed a lot of grades, but I'm not sure how that would help...

Quote: Originally Posted by aman12

It varies from province to province but in Alberta,NWT and Nunavut, you would be placed in Grade 12 courses(provided you could handle the course work). When you pass the diploma exam, you would be given retroactive credit for the pre-requisite courses. ie., you pass English 30, you get credit for English 10 and 20.

So I could still get the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (O.S.S.D) if I didn't attend 10-11th grade?

Dexter Sinister

Re: Help with Canadian Education please...

Jun 21st, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Forsaken111

Parents got deported from Canada, I moved to Russia (where I am now) and I didn't acquire a passport because I already had 2 - and 2 is the limit - and because I don't want to go to the army, which is mandatory here. So the schools didn't/don't accept me because I have no Russian passport. Sad but true.

Oh c'mon, that leaves out way too much interesting stuff, that's just a teaser.

You have two passports from unnamed countries (though it seems reasonable to assume Canada is one of them), Russia is the third country involved here, it'll accept you as a soldier without citizenship but not as a student? Sad indeed, and also bizarre. It also doesn't appear that Russia is the place your parents were deported to, as you said "I moved to Russia," not "my parents were deported to Russia."

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So you think the equivalency exam is the way to go? I think obviously it would show that I missed a lot of grades, but I'm not sure how that would help...

It's one way to go, certainly, but I can't predict exactly what'll happen. I'd expect the local school board would assess your level of education with something like an equivalency exam and some interviews, decide on that basis what schooling you need, and set up a program to fast track you to a grade 12 equivalency. I certainly hope they wouldn't just look at your 6th grade attainment and put you into grade 7 with a bunch of pre-teens. Although bureaucratic stupidity being what it is, I suppose that's possible.

TenPenny

Re: Help with Canadian Education please...

Jun 21st, 2009

What you'll need to do is to approach the provincial education dept for whatever province you're going to, and they will administer some sort of testing to determine what grade level you fit.

Forsaken111

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Re: Help with Canadian Education please...

Jun 21st, 2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Dexter Sinister

Oh c'mon, that leaves out way too much interesting stuff, that's just a teaser. You have two passports from unnamed countries (though it seems reasonable to assume Canada is one of them), Russia is the third country involved here, it'll accept you as a soldier without citizenship but not as a student? Sad indeed, and also bizarre. It also doesn't appear that Russia is the place your parents were deported to, as you said "I moved to Russia," not "my parents were deported to Russia."
It's one way to go, certainly, but I can't predict exactly what'll happen. I'd expect the local school board would assess your level of education with something like an equivalency exam and some interviews, decide on that basis what schooling you need, and set up a program to fast track you to a grade 12 equivalency. I certainly hope they wouldn't just look at your 6th grade attainment and put you into grade 7 with a bunch of pre-teens. Although bureaucratic stupidity being what it is, I suppose that's possible.

We were deported (not me) to Israel...lived there, then moved to Russia. I have a Canadian and an Israeli passport. Hope that clears things up.

And if they put me in 7th grade, that would be pretty much life-ending for me

. I'd do anything it takes for that not to happen.

Also forgot to add I went to 8th grade here in Russia, but forgot most of what they taught me.

Quote: Originally Posted by TenPenny

What you'll need to do is to approach the provincial education dept for whatever province you're going to, and they will administer some sort of testing to determine what grade level you fit.

Well, would it be practical to hire a tutor first, then go through with the testing so they don't put me in some crack baby class?

Walter