What is high school for

In a lot of ways, high school is the general building blocks that set us up for Life. While you're in there, you think of every single reason why its completely irrelevant. When will you ever need to know 3x+4y^5-7xy+4? Why is General Custer relevant in this day in age? In retrospect, its not. The majority of all that information is useless to us, but it wasn't until I left high school that I was able to realize how important it really is. Every person I met and relationship I made taught me how to interact with different types of people and adapt to each situation I'm in given the circumstances. The academic side of high school gave me a little boost, but not much for the college classes I'm taking now where I'm learning a lot of things completely fresh and different. However it was the social side of it that really benefited me more so in the long run. Interaction is such an important part of life and I think high school sets you up just barely in your comfort zone where you don't have to feel completely out of your element, but just enough to where you can branch out and explore your social mind a bit more.
Regarding CHANGE, I think there could be less focus on the 4-5 main subjects (math, english, history, etc.) and more on the creative aspects of learning. Don't get me wrong, those 5 subjects are important, but it would be nice to expand on students creativity rather than boxing them up in the generic "success" routes.
Go outside, smell the flowers. Look at some tree bark. Dance and be happy. Sit less in a stale classroom and more out in a bright environment. Take in what will benefit you, not all the knowledge that they stuff into your brain from a young age.