Dudes, i agree with >>14, aka OP, and i'm a teacher myself. I'm not an "American" teacher, yet the educational system here is almost the same thing; It's a pile of sheer political bullshit, and its sole point is to recreate the same rigid social structure endlessly.
But, i think that maybe you will find this interesting;
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Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production. That was its primary purpose. And don't think people didn't know it. They knew it and they fought against it. There was a lot of resistance to mass education for exactly that reason. It was also understood by the elites. Emerson once said something about how we're educating them to keep them from our throats. If you don't educate them, what we call "education," they're going to take control -- "they" being what Alexander Hamilton called the "great beast," namely the people. The anti-democratic thrust of opinion in what are called democratic societies is really ferocious. And for good reason. Because the freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.
* Chomsky, Class Warfare, 1995-------------------------------
That's Mr. Chomsky for you. Yeah. Highschool is already a waste of time. My advice for you is to spend your time outside your school preparing yourself for either college or university. Because that's where the smart people are, that's where you may find people who are not obsessed with being the ultimate consumer, and hopefully, you might be able to drag more people out of that mindset. But, if you just desire to live in the woods, isolated, you'll be just running away, you'll be no better than a junkie smoking crack in some lost alley. That's simply evasion. I became a teacher with the hope of slapping my students so hard in their faces with reality, that they'll have no chance but to wake up and start taking care of themselves, as citizens.
BTW, I know my english is far from perfect, i'm not an english native speaker. You will have to excuse me if i make any grammar mistakes or anything.