Quote Originally Posted by RoadKill
Exactly what the title says. Do I really need an education. I may be only 15, but I am sick and tired of school, I just can't take it anymore. I wake up at 7:00 go to school till 3:00 then I have my after school programs till six, then i gotta go to tutors till 7:00 then do my homework till 1 in the morning. Every single day I have to go through this, I have no time for things I want to do.

So I was wondering what others think about this do you really need an education to be successful? What job opportunities could one have without a job opportunity but still earn enough to have a good life
Everyone feels like that at this time of year, but that's no consolation.

I'll basically just repeat what has been said before:
Firstly, if you don't need the tutors to pass, forget about them. If you just have them around to help you with some odd problems with classwork, ask your friends instead; they usually know more anyway, in my experience If they're just there for show, you're wasting your time (and, incidentally, money).

Doing homework to one in the morning sounds extreme. I do know kids who do it - but that's because they leave their assignments and stuff too late, not because of the course content. Is that you?

You're in year 10 now; if you follow the same system as us here, next year you get to do entirely elective subjects. Choose what you enjoy, what you want to do, and you'll find things a lot more interesting. My experience is that, in senior, you do exactly as much homework as you want to do. It's certainly not essential to passing, or even doing well - I'd know, because I can't remember the last time I did homework that wasn't marked

But honestly, don't drop out on education yet. Trust me, at each stage of your life - moving from middle schooling into junior, from junior into senior, and, I assume, from senior into uni - you look back and marvel at how seriously you took things, and how little they actually mattered.

School's important, yes; but it's not so much the knowledge but the experience. Don't drop out

Sorry for the essay, by the way; I'm putting off a Chemistry one Procrastination is a valuable skill, I swear