this may be a controversial take but if i could go back in time to give high school me in the u.s. one piece of advice it would have been to just fucking drop out and get my GED. i considered it but everyone acted like that would've been the end of the world even though i was literally failing all of my classes and living in daily suicidal misery anyway. i was immunodeficient and so sick & missing weeks of classes at a time and terribly bullied.
high school was literally exclusively horrible for me; there is no advantage i've gained whatsoever from having barely completed it alive. i ended up going to a technical college years later which would have accepted a GED; grades didn't matter. i would've ended up exactly where i am now, a biologist earning my master's degree. i look back at HS and i'm like ok, there was literally NO reason for me to endure all that LOL!!!!!!!
obviously it's not the right choice for everyone but if you genuinely don't know if you're going to survive high school, quitting actually is an option. look into GED programs in your area. (i also have several younger friends who were lucky enough to have access to online homeschool options after i graduated, so if your issues are related to bullying, disability, etc. you can consider that too if it's feasible)
if you need permission to stop going through hell every day and find a different path, this is me giving it to you. contrary to pop culture, school actually ISN'T supposed to be a battle for survival every day!
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