I'm an IGCSE student and I have 0 fucking interest in studying shit like science and math even tho I'm forced to learn that garbage. Obviously, you need to learn basic things and critical thinking there's no debate but most of the hardcore stuff we're learning is useless for what I want to do (writing). My mom even thinks so, but her opinion is that I need to conform to this trash system anyway in order to get into an 80,000 college/university and get a legendary degree that'll make me bank and my dick grow 8 inches. (and also get into legendary debt we need to work 7 jobs simultaneously in order to pay it off).
But why? Why need to learn all this stuff to get into college/uni? Why do I need to waste my time doing shit that doesn't help me in the future for something that won't even guarantee me success in the future? I wanna continue working on my high fantasy novel I want to write and work on an indie game with a friend and learn to use software to make simple music… but I don't have TIME! I don't have time to work on my passions because I have to wake up at 7 to go to school and end at 4 to get home and do several hours of homework and revisions to get ready for the next topic tests I have every week.
I wish this education system would change so that we could work on a little bit of the crucial things we must learn in order to continue living and mostly focus on exploring our passions and things that we love doing. I get that when you're young it's important to do all of these things in order to figure out what you love doing but the way they teach it to you is terrible and by the time you're a teenager you should have figured out what your interests are and mostly focus on developing those skills.