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Every week, I get up early in the morning for school and prepare my books about math, social studies, etc, etc into my backpack. I get outside after an hour of being awake and await the bus ride. The bus comes and I am taunted by those sitting while I walk onto the bus. I soon walk to first period and the bell rings. Homeroom has now started. We stand as the announcements sound as they force us to pledge out allegiance to a mere flag. The second bell rings and we start class. Social Studies starts and for longer than an hour I sit learning about places no one has heard of or will even need to hear of and learn about a government I don't believe in. The third bell rings and people rush to their lockers, preparing to carry heavy books from one side of the building to another within 3 minutes. We soon arive, as some arrive late and recieve detention (merely for being minutes late), and we start our next period. Music class starts and the people in the class sit in front of our teacher (who acts like he should be teaching a kindergarten class and also acts like he knows all the lessons and meanings of life) and learn about music. I, myself, am very interested in music (I have played guitar for many years) but the many of the others sit and stair into thin air as they listen to him talk about keys on the piano and things about dead composers which we will never remember. Even I find the class very boring, and think that if someone wants to learn about music they will get a book from a library or join the school band. Over an hour passes again and I move on to math. I then learn about things that will never pertain to my life in any way. Of course, some of it will be needed in the future (things like adding, dividing, multiplying, subtracting, and things we learned about in 5th and 6th grade), and suffer horribly from lack of interest. I then move on to lunch. Kids taunt each other (and taunt me) and the teacher starts the mid day announcements. He, obviously, is on a microphone, and we can all hear him, and yet he yells and screams at us if even one person talks. After 40 minutes of lunch, I move onto science where the teacher gives busy work to waste the period. Every question asks the same things but in a different way, and we end up giving the same answer many times over and over again. Finally, the 6 hour day of school has ended and we return homework. Although we feel we are done with school for the day, we are forced to do hours of homework when we reach our homes, and get little times to have fun and search for hapiness.
School, although in some aspects is good for meeting friends and for getting out of the house, is a waste of our 90 or less years on this planet. I feel that when we reach 7th grade, we have just about learned what we need to go on to get a job. Of course, I feel that college is VERY important, especially since it teaches you about things that pertain to your future work, but middle school and high school basically teach us nothing of much importance (except, of course, the classes that you choose in high school).
Overall, I think that forcing children to go to school and be graded on small mistakes is horrible. If only there were something we could do about it, but we can't, and that is the worst part about it altogether. Hopefully one day the school systems will come to their senses and teach us things of importance.