My High School Experience Compared to Gatto's Claims

I agree a lot with what Gatto said. Especially when he said that high school is boring. I would go to school to know what I needed to do. Usually teachers told us to do the following: read this part of your textbook or listen to me lecture about this, take notes (which I usually didn't do), answer these questions or do this worksheet, study the information, the test will be: insert date here. And if you have ever read a textbook you know just how completely uneventful they are. I mean I bet history is pretty interesting if told correctly. And I never understood how one was expected to study for a math test, but that may be because I am fortunate enough to be able to understand math easily. But a lot of every subject we are supposed to know is memorization. In math formulas. In history important information. In English vocabulary. In science all of the above. Let me tell you I am great at memorizing information, but for the most part after the information is irrelevant I can't tell you squat about it. I don't need it and it's taking up important space in this brain of mine. Of course other things happen in classes, but enough of it is just memorizing or writing information to make school dreadful to go to. Not to mention we were forced to be up at ungodly hours. Maybe not for adults, but believe me having to be at school at eight in the morning is pure torture after getting to bed at two in the morning because I had to finish that one paper that's worth 50% of my grade and that math homework from the week that is all collected at once the day of the test. Granted that is my fault. Regardless, it's too early for a lot of teenagers to be awake. School is basically torture: get up even though you need about three more hours of sleep and don't fall asleep while the teachers ramble on about information you might not care about and some of the teachers telling you this "important" stuff don't care either.