School, for a start, is a system. When you go to school, you are no longer an individual. You are a number which will be directed to certain "ranks" where teachers will indoctrinate you with tons of useless bullshit without giving you any real practical advice. Real learning is bad in most schools. People naturally tend to be pretty intelligent, yet if they try to learn something they want to learn, theyll be faced with math homework, or english homework, or whatever to keep them outside. The only hope you have is to do very well, in which case the school will suck up to you to keep you as a "shining example."
People, paticularly in America, have a tendency to talk about "the failure of education." Theyll try to change little things expecting the school system to change radically. It's never going to work unless you change it from bottom up. Theres only one problem with that: schools are doing their jobs. When a kid gets out of high school, their desire to learn is almost certainly lost forever, if not, to a major degree. And yet it's not the individual, but the education system.
My advice? Bail as soon as you can. Read a book. Make your own transcript for college purposes. Do it yourself. You will find that whatever your career is can be focused on, and soon that most things will interest you and your desire to learn will be restored a good deal.
