Don't Stay In School.

I was never taught how to get a job, but I can remember dissecting a frog. I was never taught how to do tax, but I know loads about Shakespeare's classics. I was never taught how to vote, they devoted that time to defining isotopes. I was never taught how to look after my health, but mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. Never spent a lesson on current events, instead we studied the old American west. I was never taught what laws there are. I was never taught what laws there are. Let me repeat I was not taught the laws for the country i live in, but I know how Henry the VIII killed his women. Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. Glad that's in my head instead of financial advice. I was shown the wavelength of different hues of light, but I was never taught my human rights. Apparently there's 30 do you know them, I don't. Why the h*ll can't we both recite them by rote. I know igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks, yet I don't know squat about trading stocks. Or how money works at all, where does it come from? How does the thing that motivates the world function? Not taught to budget and disperse my earnings, I was to busy rehearsing cursive. Never taught how much it costs to raise a kid or what an affidavit is, but I spent days on what the quadratic equation is. Negative b plus or minus the square root of b squared minus 4ac over 2a. That's insane, that's absolutely insane! They made me learn that over basic first aid. Or how to recognize the most deadly mental disorders, or diseases with preventable causes, or how to buy a mortgage if I could afford, cuz abstract maths was deemed more important than advice that would literally save thousands of lives. But its cool, 'cause now I can tell you if the number of unnecessary deaths caused by that choice was prime. Never taught present day practical medicine, but I was told what the ancient Hippocratic method is, "I got a headache, the pain is ceaseless, what should i take?" Umm... maybe try some leeches? "Could we discuss domestic abuse and get the facts or how to help my depressed friend with their mental state?" Umm no but learn mental math because you wont have a calculator with you every day! They say its not the kids, the parents are the problem. Then if you teach the kids to parent thats the problem solved then! All this advice about using a condom, but none for when you actually have a kid when you want on. I'm only fluent in this language, for serious? The rest of the world speaks two, do you think that I'm an idiot. They choose the solar over the political system, so now like a typical citizen now I dont know what I'm voting on. What policies exist or how to make them change, mais oui, je parle un peu de Francais. So at 18, I was expected to elect a representative, for a system I had never, ever, ever, ever been presented with. But I won't take it, I'll tell everyone my childhood was wasted, I'll share it everywhere how I was "educated", and insist these pointless things #DontStayInSchool.