. There are a number of elements of your personality that you have to take into account to know if they will work for you. If you do an honest appraisal and decide online school work is not right for you, there are other good options you can consider to get your diploma.
These are the attributes of the person that does well in an online learning environment...
Very goal-driven - You need to be the type of person who can create and follow through on a goal. This is the way to accomplish most anything in life. However, many people have never been forced to learn how to be goal oriented and therefore when faced with a task that requires a short timeline and a lot of work to be done, they have no way of chunking activities to make them into short-term goals small enough to get motivated to accomplish them.
Like to get started by yourself - Many people need no one in order to get started on task. And then again, there are some people who function best in an environment where they have someone else setting the goals and timelines. It is more a matter of acceptance by others for them. They would rather meet the expectations of someone else rather than set their own agenda and follow through on them. There is nothing wrong really with either way of behaving, you just need to know which type of person you are and adjust the high school program that you attend to match those personality traits.
Can stick with a deadline - Are you the type of person who can set a deadline and stick with it? This is the type of person who functions best in online learning environment. You have to be able to somewhat self regulate your activities in order to function as well as an online student.
Very tenacious - Many online professors have other jobs and are hard to reach. You have to be able to politely insist that your professors get back in touch with you in many cases so you have to have the type of personality where you will not give up after the first effort if you're not successful.
In the final analysis, you must honestly ask if you should be taking your high school online courses or should you be biting the bullet and just going to a good old fashioned school with walls. The answer to this question lies in a bit of honest self-evaluation through asking some tough questions and giving honest answers.