School is there to filter the less gifted out. Nobody cares if you don't like/understand maths, you'll be making concrete anyways.

That's a very pretentious point of view (Or somewhat implied, but still). So. What you're basically suggesting is that we simply do not teach our children? What you're suggesting is self learning, which isn't effective by any means at all. Please elaborate.

I don't imply self-learning (you need somekind of proficiency in a field to begin with if you want to self-learn). Homeschooling is also a pretty bad idea.
I'm implying that the first 18 years of school is there to launch gifted people towards more mentally demanding jobs, and to filter the less talented out so they can go and work at a 7/11 or something similar which require almost nothing that is taught in HS.

Talented people either don't need school to teach them how to stay afloat in life, or utilize the full potential of the degree they get (even then, they aren't talented because of their degree, but because of the skillset that lies behind that piece of paper).

What a blatant lie, English is spoken in most countries. However, when it comes to the primary tongue you might be correct, but please do refrain from such blatant lies as to stating Spanish is the most spoken tongue based on the amount of countries where it is spoken.

This is what I meant, dont go sick cause you didnt get what I meant, tell me to clarify instead.

I'm currently in high school and am going to enter my junior year. I always complained to my teachers that instead of making it mandatory to learn bio, Chem, trigonometry etc. we should learn basic things that would help us in life. How to maintain a good credit score, how taxes work and all that adult crap. But my teachers always give the same answer along the lines of "it's mandatory by the state that you learn blah blah blah" or "maybe you will want to be a math teacher or chemistry teacher" some bullshit like that. I'f someone actually wants to be a teacher then take the course in college or make it optional in high school, like an elective. But the school system is currupted. If I forget an answer to a question on the test only to remember after I hand it in well to bad, you know are more fucked on life because you forgot 9+10. School is all crap. I should be taught the necessary rules on how to survive life financially, maybe even mentally.

You've done research assignments before right? You've at least got some basic maths right?

What exactly is stopping you from googling "how to have good credit" or "how do taxes work"?

I'll tell you right now, when you become an adult shit isn't going to be handed to you on a silver platter. In school you have dedicated people who's job it is to educate you, you have books with a wealth of knowledge, and your tests cover a handful of knowledge at a time. You should be getting 100% on this baby-level challenge.

If you can't at least do that much, then I can't imagine how the rest of your life is going to go when you don't have someone paid to teach you, when you don't have a very small focused curriculum to cover, when you don't have assigned reading.[/QUOTE]
Listen mate, I'm in honors I do my work and I'm great at it. I don't give two shits about how dedicated my teachers are about teaching me how sperm exits my dick. You're saying I can open a book on how to deal with taxes and things like that, well I have. I've spoken to my father about it and read books on things like that. I read the books in my free time when I didn't have to study how many chemical bonds can be formed with a dodecagon. I mean what kind of dumbshit are you saying? I don't care how easy school is, the subjects are practically pointless. Yes I can go out during my free time and learn about the things I complain others don't teach me, but it doesn't take a bright eye to see that if we learnt how to make money and "adult" things like that, we would be better off.
When I start doing bussiness, real estate for example, people that I work with won't give a flying fuck that I know the history of the Romans, or that I can tell them the probability of gaining certain genes. It's a waste of time.

Knowing anything that you don't absolutely need for your job is a waste of time tbh
When was the last time you had to cite the alphabet to a customer at McDonald's? Spent like 1 year learning that shit in first class and what do I have to show for it ffs

This, Ill be using a LOT of the maths I learn everyday, (going into engineering etc)

one thing that I really think should be taught more is coding, it is starting to be taught more in the UK, and is taught a lot in France but its needed in all sectors to some degree imo so there is no excuse for it not being taught more than it is

I never said it wasn't relevant but to make it a course in school? Please. There are 1000s of more important things to know. Plus, every 12 year old knows enough about "reproduction"