High school in the US is a joke. What did I learn? I learned math is horrible. Wait! What? Yes, school actually killed my passion for math. When I wanted to do

High school in the US is a joke. What did I learn? I learned math is horrible. Wait! What? Yes, school actually killed my passion for math. When I wanted to do matrices, they wanted to do arithmetic. When I wanted to do trigonometry, they put me in 3 (THREE) years of pre-algebra. How much fucking pre-algebra can you have? Everything I attained during and after high school was DESPITE school, not because of it. I taught myself how to program like many here, 3d graphics, sound, music, writing, etc. I wrote a book that got me a full tuition scholarship (despite having no official extracurricular activities) in my spare time. High school was so useless, I went a whole semester doing homework only one time and getting all A's and the occasional B+. And this is at one of the best public schools in New Jersey. Seriously, what a joke. What a waste of time. What torture to be put in there with all the rest of the kids, most of them unlikable idiots. And worst of all, what lost potential during those days. How much more could I have done had I not been forced into this elaborate babysitting scheme we call high school? How many books would I have written? What software would I have developed? What animations would I have created? If only I hadn't been so tired from the daily bullshit of high school ...