Sending a Child to Traditional School

My oldest two children are bored and lonely. I should have used an exclamation point to emphasize this point. It's bad. Katie doesn't even want to get out of bed in the morning and cries herself to sleep each night. We had hoped that segment two of driver's training would help her at least meet some people, but it didn't work out. She has dropped off job applications all over town without any success.

Yesterday, I asked her if she would like to be registered in the local public school. She has almost completed her high school work, so I'm not concerned about academics. She is a homeschool senior this year and is ready to graduate. We talked about the pros and cons of going to high school for social reasons. It was finally decided that I will be trying to register her next week. We are going to try to register her as a junior, because I think they would have a hard time taking her as a senior so close to graduation. We don't want/need the diploma, but would like her to meet some people her own age. If she likes it, she may go back next year to take classes that she enjoys and ones that may help her with the ACT and SAT, which we forgot to take due to the timing of our move.

After our conversation, Katie seems a little more optimistic. I'm glad that she is willing to try something new and hope that she has a good experience. She's taken classes at the community college, so she might find the students immature. If she finds that she doesn't like the public high school, I'll tell the school system that she is being homeschooled next year and send her to the community college.