Highschool

The simplest definition is HELL, though any four letter word fails to give it justice.

If you have a way to get out of it do so, the only reason to go through with it is if you want a (chance of a) decent job. High school is required for most jobs not because it teaches skills for any of those professions but because the world hates you. high school is notable for a multitude of reasons that we shall start listing, I guess.

high school has a wonderful method of education in that they cram as much down your through as quickly as possible, meaning by the time testing has come around it's already getting fuzzy. Instead of cutting out the 95% of information that is completely pointless, the school-board decided that eight hours of wasted time each day was not enough and handed out homework to help memorize it. Each teacher teaches as if their class is the only one you have, handing out work as if that is the only homework you do, and planing test and assignments in the same vein, this meant each teacher feel perfectly entitled to give out an hour of homework, and by that I mean your six teachers all handout and hour of homework, each day, because you have no life outside of school right? Surprisingly social rejection and excessive burn out can cause mental strain, and again instead of fixing the problem the school-board slapped a band-aid on a broken femur and then bragged about it's accomplishment. By that I mean they hired a few failed physiology students and "allowed" students to talk to them.

and now we come to the information taught, I am only going to focus on the mandatory subjects.

Language arts: easily the most useless of the bunch, the class will lecture on about how creative and witty writers like Shakespeare where, whilst punishing any deviation from and extensive set of rules for their assignments. Generally these classes only focus on two authors: Shakespeare and Homer. I understand why these where important, but other authors existed, H.G Wells, Love-heart, F. Tennyson Neely, William Hodgeson, (I like sci-fi horror OK) all of which are in my opinion just as important to the history of literature. Language arts has the potential to be a fun and informative class but fails horrendously due to the "importance" of sentence diagramming.

science: tedious, but i can see why its included. Yes some things should be cut or added, but it's easy to see why they added it, and overall it's very useful.

Math: gets exponentially more useless as you go on, the class starts in elementary school when it's necessary for life as a whole, and gradually becomes completely pointless, using the elementary usefulness as a scapegoat for this fact.

P.E : the only thing this class teaches is how to hate physical exertion.