I quit high school around a near year ago to pursue a GED instead. It was my junior year. 17 then, 18 now. I got a lot of shit for it. I mean, I still do but it's a lot less than when I initially left. Unfortunately, I still don't have my GED because of my state's asinine laws on GED requirements but none of that is what I want to cover.
I left school because they didn't teach me anything worth knowing anymore. I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for some dumbass fucking exam on some bullshit that didn't fucking matter. Moreover, they neglected teaching things that actually mattered. They don't teach you how to love somebody or tell someone you no longer love them. They don't teach you how to say goodbye or deal with death. There's no lessons on talking someone out of suicide, or spotting a scam or determining what's important. There's no classes about sex, no classes about friendship, no classes about how to think for yourself, no classes about pain and suffering, and no classes worth giving a damn about anymore. These things are transparently essential to a functioning human but they're nowhere to be found in the places we consider the epicenters of education? It's not knowing these things that derail people's lives, not some dumb fucking algebra equations and history facts about Mesopotamia and the ability to regurgitate that dumb shit onto a piece of paper in a timely manner.
It was so dull and ugly, nothing felt authentic or real to me. It was strangling me. I had never-ending tsunamis of anxiety - one after the other. The atmosphere was never not gloomy. High school felt like a 4-year-long sentence of mind control and subservience to authority figures. It was dread in its purest form. That was the state of normality for me there. Now a year later, I'm glad to say I feel extremely liberated. Anxiety is a rarity to me and I'm learning something worthwhile about every single day. I'm a totally different and better person, and I can attribute the most of that to dropping out. It was one of the best decisions I've ever made and I will never regret it. It led me onto a pathway I would never thought imaginable.
There were plenty of other smaller reasons that all played their role in the collective reason why I left but I found these ones to be the most significant ones worth mentioning.
I'm not necessarily saying you should quit out of school because it reeks of mediocrity or anything, but I'm certainly not going to say it's going to ruin your life entirely. It's just that I'm not most people. It's hard for me tolerate broken systems in order to meet goals and I don't think that's really a bad thing.
I left school because they didn't teach me anything worth knowing anymore. I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for some dumbass fucking exam on some bullshit that didn't fucking matter. Moreover, they neglected teaching things that actually mattered. They don't teach you how to love somebody or tell someone you no longer love them. They don't teach you how to say goodbye or deal with death. There's no lessons on talking someone out of suicide, or spotting a scam or determining what's important. There's no classes about sex, no classes about friendship, no classes about how to think for yourself, no classes about pain and suffering, and no classes worth giving a damn about anymore. These things are transparently essential to a functioning human but they're nowhere to be found in the places we consider the epicenters of education? It's not knowing these things that derail people's lives, not some dumb fucking algebra equations and history facts about Mesopotamia and the ability to regurgitate that dumb shit onto a piece of paper in a timely manner.
It was so dull and ugly, nothing felt authentic or real to me. It was strangling me. I had never-ending tsunamis of anxiety - one after the other. The atmosphere was never not gloomy. High school felt like a 4-year-long sentence of mind control and subservience to authority figures. It was dread in its purest form. That was the state of normality for me there. Now a year later, I'm glad to say I feel extremely liberated. Anxiety is a rarity to me and I'm learning something worthwhile about every single day. I'm a totally different and better person, and I can attribute the most of that to dropping out. It was one of the best decisions I've ever made and I will never regret it. It led me onto a pathway I would never thought imaginable.
There were plenty of other smaller reasons that all played their role in the collective reason why I left but I found these ones to be the most significant ones worth mentioning.
I'm not necessarily saying you should quit out of school because it reeks of mediocrity or anything, but I'm certainly not going to say it's going to ruin your life entirely. It's just that I'm not most people. It's hard for me tolerate broken systems in order to meet goals and I don't think that's really a bad thing.