But hey, never fear. If you're charismatic enough, there's always politics.

That is the biggest lie in this whole article, and the school system is a huge lie. We've been electing the same family of people to office as long as there has been voting. If you are not from that family, you just disappear.

Anyway, you haven't even scratched the surface of why school sucks.
Try listening to the School Sucks Podcast. I can't remember the name of the original interviewee that started it off, but he is great.

He had a list of the top 10 things schools teach, and learning wasn't even on the list.

Imagine, you are in class, learning something "important", and just in the middle, the bell rings. Does the teacher say this is more important, so stay in your seats? Only once has it happened to me. The bell is more important than your learning.

Further, everything you were taught in school is wrong.
Speaking from The US schools, all the science was wrong, and all the history was sooo skewed that it may as well have been wrong.

School certificates are necessary because most hiring people are too stupid to actually test someone to see if they can do the task desired. So, they rely on the pieces of paper. Almost all of which means you could sit still and memorize a list of haphazardly chosen words, and regurgitate them onto the form.

School was developed not to teach, but to indoctrinate. And the certifications are necessary because people were never taught enough to tell if a person can do a task.

And don't even get me started on the things they didn't teach you, like selling and financial literacy. I mean, everything they taught you is nothing compared to those two skills in actually living your life.