take it from me...i`ve been playing for a long long while now...and had my fair share of quitting...but i`ve always came back to it and still am playing. so dont give it up unless its a "im going to fail school" type of thing.

I`m guessing you`re probably a pretty bright kid, and could `get by` in school even if you didn`t work excessivly hard.

Since I`m not your parent or guidance councelor, I can get away with telling you this:
Don`t let school get in the way of your education. Music will hold meaning in your life for ever, while grades aren`t important at all after college.

If you enjoy music, and especially if you are good at it, keep at it. Make time for it. If you`re pressed for time in school because you`re pressing hard for that A+ rather than settling for a B+, then try to relax a bit. If you`re pressed because you`re failing, then that`s a different story--the basics have to come first.

Besides, if your parents question you, point out that a univerity scholarship for music is just as valuable as one for academics...

if there is a orchestra in ypur school get in it

It sounds to me that you are taking violin from a very classical teacher. Have you thought of switching to a different style of playing which is less technically demanding for you. Now before the traditional fiddlers get after me, I have taught traditional fiddling for 25 years and I know traditional fiddling is technically demanding, but in a different way. With the skills this young man has now, he can make the leap to whatever traditional style is played in his area, have a lot of fun and keep playing the fiddle until pressures ease off in his life. That is unless he is thinking of making the violin his career. In which case he should stay with the classical lessons. I played classical until I was 19. Dropped it for a few years (I didn`t have a symphony to play with) and then I discovered fiddling (which always makes you welcome at a party).

I too just stopped violin lesson last week.
Because of time constrain , and I had to focus on my piano.
And it feels really weird, and kinda empty... and I wonder how things will work out if I just tried a little harder?
But I figure out that I`ll continue to practice as usual...but in my own pace, instaed of the teacher`s, and hopefully still get to play decently one day.

No I`m the same age and year as you arebut you see its harder for me because I take clarinet, violin, piano, voice! and it does get with my school work but it relaxes me and not to mentoion that I`m in my school`s band and chior so I have no study hall and I don`t get to have lunch with my friends. But you know I never get tired of playing violin, besides if your a rock freak like me you can play some oink floyde on the violin.