School Is Useless

School is almost completely useless. Whether this is an unpopular opinion or not it needs to be heard and spread because I almost guarantee that at least 80% of students agree with me on this. Take my privileges, take my car, take my gaming, take my phone, take whatever, but your doing it wrong. I know you parents and adults will look down on my opinions on this because I’m a 16 year old kid that knows nothing of the world and should be an immature teenager but one of these times you will realize and so will all the other parents of the world that this is the wrong way to go about things and almost every single kid in the school will back me up and vouch me on this. Thousands, hundreds of thousands of kids will back me on this across the country. School is so pointless it’s ridiculous, it teaches you absolutely nothing worth knowing or keeping in my brain. Everything I learn for a history test gets forgotten the next day. Every math concept forgotten the next year. If I ask any parent a quote in quote “basic” history question about some war in 1912 or whatever year about why when where and how it happened you don’t know that. Yet I think any parent would 100% tell me that history is an important subject that is needed in life. Teachers over and over say your gonna need this on the test, when am I gonna need this in life. I know I’m not the only one that thinks this because I have friends that have shared my stories with all this stuff on it and texting me that this is facts and that they agree. I’m just the one willing to put it out there and stand up for what I believe, isn’t that what you parents teach us. The world is evolving every day and the practice of teaching hasn’t changed one bit since the 1800's. You can send me to in person school but you will just make my life more miserable, I have all the same resources that I use to “procrastinate” at school that I do at home. When I’m not writing essays, not doing my math homework and missing zooms, I’m not gaming or watching pointless videos on YouTube or Netflix. I sit at my desk and learn about things that interest me, such as finances, learn how to do taxes, invest, how to read the stock market or how to become a digital marketer. Multiple things which need to be taught in life, but I sit in school and learn about what war happened in what time, at what place and why. Instead of teaching these actually essential things in school I am left to learn them on my own. I understand your frustration about grades and school but whether you like it or not it’s not interesting or worth my time and until someone can explain to me the good of doing that I will continue to fail classes or be an average student. If you wanna take AP classes, be a book worm and you enjoy studying be my guest, work towards MIT and Harvard. That's not me though I’m not gonna sit around and make my life miserable just because that is the standard in life.

Now I'm going to address the main points from adults that school is important, which may I include are very unclear and weak points. The first opinion I've heard is that school and college is very important to be "successful" in life and have a good career. This is false for several reasons, yet there is a little truth to this as well. I agree you need school to become a doctor or a nurse or other careers that follow that path but the majority of careers don’t need all that anymore. After my research, in most situation college degrees don't make you more employable at all. Many consider a degree a minimum requirement, yet this is continually growing to be not true. Yes this varies between country and field but for the growing fields such as, programming, plane flying, dental hygienist, entrepreneur, this statement just isn't true. Also another reality check is that if those careers aren't interesting to you, neither will the career you are rushed into after college with the mountain of debt. As mentioned above, the topic is field sensitive. The earlier argument was possibly more aimed at the business side of things, where any businessman will tell you that a college degree is one of the largest financial burden in your business career. These fields along with others are best learned on the job, you can't study in an artificial environment and be successful when your in the cold. Oh and I mentioned the mountain of debt right?

Most students in high school are cramming AP classes, sports and any other extra curricular activity that they think are marketable to the college they have decided is the right college for them. A lot of people including me would only run for things like class president or try to get into honors clubs to put it on there resume. This should not be a reason you are doing these things. Parents and society are pushing students into building a strong college application so that they get into a college which they’ve been convinced they have to go to (i). Ask yourself are you doing this just to get into the college you want and to look good or are you genuinely interested in this and motivated to do this. Here is an example of what colleges actually look for in a student.

Especially in high school and middle school the subjects and curriculum taught is forgotten after the test is finished. The main reason is because the information is not interesting enough to cram into there brain. You expect me to know how to do my taxes and learn how to my manage money successfully but are still teaching me about the Egyptian pyramids? Maybe I am crazy but that's a little backwards if you ask me.

From my experience, if I'm forced to do something I am more likely to not do it. If I am reading a book or doing the dishes I could see how that would be relaxing but as soon as my mom or dad tells me I need to do it, it's no longer relaxing and more of a hassle. "Make sure your kids are choosing their schools for the right reasons. Name, status, “brand” — these are not the right reasons. Let your kids be kids. Let them follow their hearts. Encourage them to have a present, not just a future (i)." If you want to focus on school and love it be my guest, but if your among the majority who don't fall into that category, then going to school isn't doing any good. A students application is only stronger if they are themselves. Good grades or even no grades, its not the school that shaped them into the person they are today its there childhood experiences that shaped them to be the person they are today. It amazes me that even though children are still being forced for countless hours a week to work on something they dread. This occasionally leads to depression or even suicide in extreme cases. And still at the end of everything there are still graduates that don't know what the hell there doing on this planet (i). If your forced to do something in my experience your more likely to develop a dislike for that thing rather than doing something on your own terms. Maybe in some occasions you may end up falling in love with this thing, but most times you end up hating the thing you were forced to do. A study by Peter Gray Ph. D. shows that there is a direct correlation between suicide deaths in children based on the months of the year. When school lets out the number decreases and as soon as school starts back up in September number start to rise again. You tell me but that's a little concerning to me that still no one is talking about this.

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