Why is school so pointless?

Many kids can't stand school, it personally doesn't bother me that much, besides the fact that it is just a huge waste of time, most kids are assholes, and half of the teachers can't even teach. Ok i understand the need for SOME schooling, but the amount of time that we are forced to go to school is just rediculous. Every year it is basically the same exact thing, the content we learn is even recycled. I have honestly not learned a single useful thing in years from school. I never study, and hardly pay attention in class, I even skipped a grade in math and english and take AP classes and still have a 95 average. How is it possible that some kids are failing not just one class, but three or four! Some of the kids in school are just complete idiots, and not just acedemically. There was a huge fist fight in my school that resulted in one kid getting taken to jail, and another suspended for over a week. Guess what this fight was over, a hat! I just have to laugh at how stupid some people are. Guys are always finding ways to push other people's buttons for no reason. This is just plain stupid and it's not going to acomplish anything except having people hate you, and possibly getting killed (if the other kid goes phyco).

Not only are we forced to go to school for what 6-7 hours a day, but then we are loaded with homework so we can waste even more time at home. I already spent my whole day at school and you want me to go home and to 25 math questions that take 10 minutes each, read five chapters out of this idiotic book and write an essay on it, do a practice test for chemistry, and do a research paper on some guy from the civil war for APUS...haha ya right. But unless you want to fail you have to do all of this pointless stuff, on top of trying to manage a social life and working (atleast for me) 20 hours a week and a borring job that I hate. I get fucking exhausted and worn out, and I know a lot of other teenagers out there feel the way I do.

I just love it when my school makes me do work for them for free to. This just makes me crack up! To graduate from school I have to do over 20 hours of community service. Are you kidding me? I already have a job and go to school and you want me to waste more time helping out other people that couldn't give a crap about me. It isn't my fault that there life got screwed up or they got old, it isn't necessarily there fault either, but I just don't feel it's right to force kids to do it because no one else wants too. I'm not against helping out occasionally if a choose, but please don't force me to do it or you won't let me graduate, that is just cheap. I just want to enjoy what is left of my childhood, but that is dam near impossible with school, work, hw, etc. I am awake for about 18 hours every day. Take away an hour for getting ready and going to school, 7 hours for actually being in school, 2-3 hours atleast for homework, and then about 4 hours for my job. What am I left with? About 3 hours a day where I can relax, but I'm usually exhausted by then anyway and it is already 10 at night. I don't even have weekends off from my job or from homework. I hardly ever have anytime to workout, play sports, videogames, gamble, or even just hang out. This isn't how a teenagers life is suppose to be, maybe when I am an adult, but not right now!

The book store (any store at school), where the kids sell the items is another type of child labour. Just because the school is too cheap to pay someone to actually run the store they have kids do it, and they don't get paid with money, but with experience. What a load off BS. Next year for one of my classes I have to build a full-size playhouse over a 6-7 months, and then that playhouse gets donated for free somewhere. I am putting all of this hardwork into making this thing, and not only do I not get a say in what happens to it, but I get nothing for it. Of course the teachers say I am getting paid with knowledge...ok well if I wanted that I would join a trade school. That way I can learn AND get paid. Or I would just work at the job I already have so I can actually make money.