I was searching around looking for ways to drop out at 14 in the UK and all I could find could find anywhere were just laws and more laws. This made sense at first but then I realized that every single page was full of this same information on different websites and i noticed that there does not seem to be any negativity against the school system, nothing that truly disagrees with how it is run. Then it occurred to me; could someone be deliberately making the negative posts against school very hard to find?
My views on school are that it is a system designed to brainwash people. It brainwashes you by making you think that school is the norm and it is weird to not go to school. When you think of school drop-outs you think negative. You think of people who the school really did not want to 'take care of' anymore. This is definitely not the case though considering a large number of entrepreneurs dropped out and started earning large sums of money by using skills they learnt themselves with experience. Skills they never learnt at school.
Whilst some of the main subjects at school are quite vast and cover a lot, the majority of the subjects are extremely specific. The majority of things you learn will absolutely never be needed later on unless you have specific jobs. You learn what you learn just so you can do a test on it later on. When in life will you ever need to do complex maths in your head? Every single normal person has a phone with a perfectly capable calculator app on it. If I ask my maths teacher what the things we learn will ever be used for, I am told that they may not be important later on but they are needed for the exams. These exams have led many people to suicide because of the massive amounts of stress around them. I myself do not ever bother doing homework or putting large amounts of effort into lessons or revising for exams at all and even I get stressed about exams occasionally. Why are these exams still so important? Most people have some kind of qualifications so what makes them so useful for getting employment when everyone has them and they are nothing special?
Quite literally everything that is learnt at school can very easily be learnt at home on the internet and you can find the information much quicker. You can also find a lot more information than you are taught in lessons at a school. Every person learns at different speeds but schools force you to have to learn at the same speed as a class. Also, school is not for everyone and there should definitely be more alternatives and much easier to find alternatives that you can do at a far younger age than 16.
