As a student myself (American highschool, currently senior year + online dual enrollment) I can't help but feel as though a lot of the math classes I am taking

As a student myself (American highschool, currently senior year + online dual enrollment) I can't help but feel as though a lot of the math classes I am taking are simply wasting my time. Actually, I can't help but feel that a lot of the classes I am taking are wasting my time. I would consider myself one of the lucky ones in the fact that I never had to touch anything calculus related. My school tested having students take AP Statistics instead of Pre-Calculus (a decision they have now reversed after seeing that only 3 kids passed the AP stats exam) and I avoided taking Calculus for my senior year because I am taking a math class at a local college instead. I am also quite disappointed that my college Algebra class feels like the same pump and dump memory game all over again. Then again, it's all online due to Covid so I can only hope that the real college experience is more interesting. I really wish high schools would stop emphasizing on the "common curriculum" and start giving students more freedom to choose what they want to learn. I also think that there should be a highschool class that teaches you how to think instead of what to think.