It's not much easier on the teacher, believe me. I hold a teacher's license that I'll never ever use. There is always a conflict between what a teacher thinks they should teach about, what the parents think they should teach about, and what the politicians think they should teach about.
Take Massachusetts for example. There was a lot of controversy surrounding the MCAS exam, why? Well because now teachers, after being hired are literally handed a list of things they can teach. They can't really deviate from that list in any way, because they risk their students failing the test, which kind of sucks.
Secondly, say you are a high school teacher. You've put together an honors history class for students who really excel in the field, and you've set up criteria for students to be accepted to it. You think that criteria is going to hold? WRONG!
One parent thinks that there child should be in the class and calls the principle and/or makes enough of a stink at a school board meeting, forget your criteria, that kid will be in your class. Regardless of whether the student can handle the work load. Then when the student begins to fail the class because he wasn't a good fit for the workload in the first place, the parent calls the principle again and blames YOU for being too hard... well now you've got to dumb the class down, and those who are trying to excel in it, get "left behind."
This is one of the examples that the college teacher's prep classes give that started pushing me away from teaching... sadly in college I did all the classes towards my major and didn't take the teaching classes till after. Probably should have thought that through some more...
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Seriously, though, school is great; ignore all these dorks and learn to love learning. As you get older you'll have more and more freedom to choose what you're learning about, and you'll really appreciate it.
I agree with Loaf, Junior/senior year in HS and then college you really get to focus your learning on to what you are interested in. I will say thats when my grades skyrocketed.