About two months into her junior year at Notre Dame Catholic Girls HS, Emma left school, then studied for and passed the California High School Exit Exam. This was one time a CA requirement to graduate in addition to actually taking courses, but now can be used to graduate early. Often students wanting to go to college at 16 / 17, child actors, military families etc. use this. There is still some controversy about the test as some CA colleges may also still require community college breadth requirements before the student is considered eligible for entrance. Emma's dad, Michael Chamberlain of the YouTube painting channel chamberlainpaintings, has addressed Emma's education several times in Q & A's on his channel, in part as the family was under fire for supposedly letting Emma "drop out" of school to move to LA and be a YouTuber. Emma never did online school, though this is a common misconception.carlinn wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2019 11:04 amEmma said she tested out in the past, and claimed she doesn’t know why they don’t tell people about it other than “everyone would do it”. I believe this was in her video about why she’s leaving high school (idk the actual name but it was a sit down video in SF). Could be misremembering but I think the sudden mention of online classes is new?gimmethetea wrote:serious questionSqueakLola wrote: ↑Sat Jul 06, 2019 8:00 pmNot happy with the b-word usage, but yea Emma passed AP General Science and Biology and thinks she knows everything science. That's what happens when you are a HS dropout. Chemistry and Physics are important!
are you still considered a "high school dropout" if you finish your courses online? Emma has said multiple times that she went to "online school" and completed her education early that way but people keep calling her a high school dropout?? idk I'm just a little confused, i assumed that high school dropouts are people who didn't complete high school at all, like Haley Pham, not some one who goes the online route like Antonio Garza and Emma.
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Emma is also very bad at her own PR. Just as regular viewers since the beginning know that she makes hygiene jokes that aren't serious, Emma has made many jokes about "dropping out of school" and only ever really clarifying once, on a Cody Ko podcast in December 2017, and in the Forbes interview. But drama / tea / hate channels don't actually research their subjects so they post that Emma dropped out of school, or she doesn't shower, and then the viewers who watch and choose to be triggered by these non-facts then bully her across social media. Emma could help herself better about these easily avoidable non-scandals, but she doesn't. She could have explained better her high school CHSEE in about thirty seconds in the video she did with the twins taking final exams, but didn't.
Related, in her Members vid she just posted she starts chanting "Emma doesn't shower...Emma doesn't shower...Emma smells bad." On the one hand Emma seems much smarter than many YouTubers (the entire LA beauty gugu MUAs) by never feuding, beefing, shading anyone else, but at the same time she does not seem to have quite developed the self-care to know what jokes to make and what jokes not to make in order to prevent herself from suffering damage from the hate channels that love to attack her over anything and everything.