If only, if only...(We need a school revolution)

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In a way, I always knew I would do school better without school. I kind of always felt like teachers take their time teaching and I always wondered if I would be better off on my own.

Recently, I finally had a chance to experiment when I had many meltdowns and was asked not to return to my high school. I began homeschooling myself and sending work to my teachers by e-mail.

Amazingly, despite the fact that I gave myself tons of free time and spent 2 weeks in a mental facility, I have just learned that I am now far ahead of my peers and will be graduating at the top of my class.

How many years did I waste on traditional schooling; always waiting for others? What would I be like if I had never stepped foot in a traditional school? How far could I be by now? Finished with college? A doctorate? Two? I'll never know for sure but what I do know is that I could have gotten a lot more done by myself than I ever can at school.

Anybody else feel that school is holding or has held them back?

Congratulations.

School was a disaster for me.
I can't say I've done as well as you but I left at 15, before the first lot of exams which I'm pretty sure I would have failed, spent time going in and out of a psychiatric unit, went to college and stopped attending classes after a couple of weeks, but managed to finish the year at home with okay marks in four subjects at the level above what I expected to fail at school, which was a surprise.

In the USA, schools have been more about babysitting than education. You could do all the classwork but miss too many days and you must repeat the grade.

That's how you run a prison, not a school.

I could stay at home and study for an hour a day or every few days and accomplish the same amount I do in a public highschool. I take 'AP' classes too

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
(Twain)