Some of my experiences in school have been "extensive and irrelevant preparations for adulthood". Every year there is a student who asks "When am I going to use this in real life?" I'm not always the one asking the question, but when someone brings it up I think about it. "When am I ever going to use this in real life?", "Why are there so many letters involved in math?", "Why does it matter where a comma goes?" It may sound stupid, but teenagers ask these questions to themselves and their teachers all the time.
I have definitely had situations like this where I thought what my teachers were teaching me had absolutely no purpose in my life. I mean, who doesn't have moments like this? It's just the way we teenagers think. Some like school, some don't. Some understand, some don't. That's just how it is.
Now that I look back on the times I thought this way, I do realize that there was some form of value in them. Everything being taught to me has a purpose and reasoning in some way, shape or form. It may not make sense at the time because of the age factor, but eventually everyone understands.
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