For eight hours a day, ten months straight. Students in the United States are taught how to add, write an essay and even how the ancestors of this land were slaughtered and its known as "the greater good."

I was never taught how to find a job, change my car tire, or even deal with my emotions. Some kids are thrown into the world, on their own or close to it and high school can't care enough to bat an eyelash. How do they budget, how should they pay bills, insurance, how do you expect them to eat if the only teachers that they've ever had come from inside your walls and they are forced then to sing the alphabet and pretend like there isn't a bigger crisis in the world.

Some kids had to grow up on their 13th birthday and play a role brought on too early. Some kids work, save money they are told that if they don't buy this particular t-shirt that there will be consequences.

High school, why can't you see that there are kids so depressed because they don't know where their next meal is coming from. Cant, you see the kids that are struggling to stay warm and how to them it's not only the temperature that's cold but the entire human race.

Kids aren't taught how to deal with the death of a parent when they've got no other family. They aren't taught that every 6000 miles you need an oil change. They don't know that life insurance is really really important.....But they do know what a quadratic is.

And, the Board of Education and school system hears this slander against them. They refuse to make a move.

It is sad when we live in a society controlled by the scrutiny of the American public school system. It's almost like everything our generations will ever be is in the model of the most corrupt places on earth.