As high school has come to a close, I have come to realize that the school system is impractical. Students go for 8 hours a day to mind numbing information, go home to 4+ hours of homework a night, and on top of all that some of us have jobs, sports, or other extracurricular activates. Plus we need 8 hours of sleep to function properly. If there is anything that math has taught me is that there is no way those numbers could add up to a logical schedule.

I have nothing against the teachers; I just have a vendetta against the subjects.

For example: When in the real world (unless you are a math or chemistry teacher) have you used a parabola or when have you needed to solve the atomic mass of salt. Never. I'm not going to be standing in my kitchen trying to calculate the grain of salt that I'm putting on my food. All the school system does is put us in the same 5 core classes each year, only with a higher level of difficultly as they progress.

In math there should be the basics, then learning how to do taxes, manage money/learning to invest it wisely, set up a retirement fund, etc. We should be learning home economics not science that we will never use, unless you go into that field. In fact, the only class I find useful is English because it teaches us how to read and write. Like my mom always says "If you can read you can succeed" But when you sit down and really think about it we have done the same thing over and over for 8+ years the material is just at higher levels.

I get that school is important to our growth and development but for me it’s a place were I come and just wait in fear for an anxiety attack to strike. I also think that our GPA and SAT scores don’t define who we will turn out to be in the future but thats a different rant for a different day.

Bill Gates dropped out of college and that’s all I have to say.