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School is many things... a place of learning... a place to learn to socialize with others... a place to learn tolerance and appreciate diversity... a place to learn random facts for trivia... a place to learn a trade to use in your career... a place to sort people into useful nitches in society... a hoop to jump through to get where you want to go... etc etc etc

The list is endless, debateable, constantly changing depending on who is in charge of politics at the time, and all of them at the same time....

What matters is that you find your own purpose to why you are in school, work towards that goal, and be happy with that goal... I hated school as a student, but I love it as a teacher... strange little quirk there isn't it? When you make your own meaning for it and try to work the system to fit that meaning as best as you can, then there will be a point to all your effort. Most of what the politicians and many of your teachers and professors have said is going to be crap unless you agree with them. Find your own path if you want to make it more than a stupid little rat race that many find it to be...