I hate school

[majordave]

Its so boring,
I don't need school I don't listen to the teachers anyway
I learn much better by myself :@

Many people only think they learn better on their own.

I KNOW I learn just fine on my own as evidenced by the fact that I studied on my own to "test out" of a year of college, which was the maximum allowed. Never took more than a couple weeks of study to pass those tests either.

But there's actually more to going to school than all that info they try cramming into your head. In many ways, the socialization aspect is far more important.

Not all jobs require the ability to work with others. For example, many computer programmers rarely interact with others, but if you ever want to make it into management, THE most important skill is the ability to direct others, and take responsibility not just for your own work, but theirs as well.

Many colleges now stress "team projects" to prepare you for future jobs where you need to work in conjunction with others, and rather than separate grades for each member of the team, the entire team receives one grade. My college was particularly big on this, and practically every class required at least 1 or 2 team projects. Where it concerns grades, I'm "obsessive-compulsive", and anything less than an "A" was completely unacceptable. In my school also, scoring between 90-94 was only an "A minus" so I absolutely HAD to score above a 95, and so did every member on my team. To assure this, I also HAD to be the team leader, and no one ever had a problem with that either because they wanted that A too.

I actually didn't go directly from high school to college, but rather traveled around the country, and then world first. I worked many places, many minimum wage jobs, but always got promoted fast.

Why? It's what you're actually being groomed for by participating in extra-cirricular high school activities. Regular classes bored the piss out of me too, but I never missed a single meeting of my theater, music, or dance clubs, as well as being a girl scout, rainbow girl, 4 H, Irish marching band, and many, many church groups. It's how you learn to become a "team player" and then, a leader. All training for success in your future career, and as a contributing member of society.