Why are these subjects mandatory?

So here I was sitting and doing my chemistry homework when a thought came to my head. Why am I even doing this? I've lost years of sleep, gained years of stress, felt horrible anxiety, and developed super bad depression all because of the school system. Now, don't get me wrong. There are more reasons to why I have these problems but for sure one of them is mandatory school subjects. Why exactly do we need to take math, science, and history past 8th grade. Honestly, even 8th grade is pushing it a bit. Like, when will I ever need to know algebra or geometry. I don't plan to major in math or science. I want to become an artist/writer, yet the one place designed to help me get to that goal forces me to take classes I don't care about. I mean, chemistry is interesting but not to the point where I have this incontrollable motivation to finish the homework. It's so much work that seems so pointless to me. In my opinion, English is the only subject that should be mandatory until 12th grade. It is the class that helps students be literate and articulate. Everything else is a waste of time for people that don't wish to pursue those subjects. The reason it's a waste of time is because you most likely won't need most of this information in your adulthood and you probably won't remember it anyway. That's why I find it so astonishing when teachers and parents alike are surprised that their student or child is failing their classes. In our eyes, they're boring, useless classes! One of the reasons I am so angry about these mandatory classes is that they take time away from you doing what you love. The homework is given in piles (not to mention how confusing it is, probably because you didn't pay attention enough in class to actually understand it(and you didn't pay attention because the class is boring)) and it takes hours to finish with no sort of satisfaction in the end-just an endless grind. Due to the amount of time allotted to finish this homework, including essays, you don't have enough time to do the things you love-in my case being drawing. And if you do decide to not give so much time to homework, then your grade on those assignments will be low which leads to a bad overall grade (and if you want to improve that grade for your GPA (which colleges look at), you have to dedicate even more of your time to do corrections of extra credit, if your teacher even gives that.). As some will know, to get better at drawing, you must practice, practice, and practice. How am I supposed to practice after I have just grinded through my homework to the point of exhaustion? There is another way though. Just tank the bad grade to get more time for drawing. Well, then you have insane amounts of pressure and discipline coming from your parents and teachers. Then, you might develop depression which almost always results in apathy (like what happened to me). Apathy is a horrible thing as you lose any motivation and interest in ANYTHING you like which is a horrible feeling. Anyway, I am here to ask one question: Why Are These Classes Mandatory?

Submitted January 30, 2021 at 01:33PM by DanTheWeebFr https://ift.tt/3afMOkR