nickhumph,
I'm glad you clarified that you will finish high school. It is very important! But, are you there for the right reason?
"Get good grades so you can get into a good university so you can get a good degree so you can get a good job." Wait, you want a job?
People substitute the following words WAY to often; school, education, degree, coaching, wisdom, experience, ... ... ... job, income, ... ... ...
There are MANY avenues available to gain a
real education. Your best bet is to use ALL of them. Learn at school, don't focus on grades. Learn the 'data' but also learn the social & networking skills. Learn character by completing something you don't feel like completing. In your business hire a business systems consultant (coach), a good accountant (coach), a couple lawyers. Make friends with your college professors.
ALL of those are your teachers. Your employees are your teachers. Competitors are your teachers. Books are your teachers. Boring tasks are your teachers.
BUT, back to the first question... are you there (anywhere) for the right reason?
If you hire the coaches to simply do the work for you, you are a fool. You pay them to not only do the work, but to teach you. If you do not ask questions you are missing an educational opportunity.
Which leads me to my next concern... you say you are uninterested and bored in class. To me, that means you are not there for the right reason. You should be in class to LEARN. Sure homework is usually busy work. I hardly finished my homework. I failed high school because of that but I find it alarming when you say you are bored and uninterested in class. If you are there to learn something... anything... you will rarely be bored. You get out what you put in. You need to learn in every class even if it isn't the subject being discussed. How is the teacher presenting the idea? Could it be presented better? How? How could it be presented more interestingly? Remember, learn in every class... math class, choir, science, history...
You said history is the most useless subject there is. No offense but you couldn't be farther from the truth. When you learn what a franchise is you are only studying history. When you read a book about business you are reading history. When you learn how people who dropped out of highschool/college became successful entrepreneurs you are reading history! While it might appear that your current history class is useless to you it isn't. Even math and science are just history (the history of what other people have discovered... so far). Every ounce of temporal knowledge is just recorded history.
Anyways sorry it is scattered, but the question remains... why are you there? Notice some people here say go to college for a backup. I disagree. That is the wrong reason as well. Go to college to learn. That's it. To learn. Do everything to learn. Start a business to learn. Help your friend through a hard time to learn. Go to school to learn. Complete a triathlon to learn.
Oh, and backup? What's a backup? (search youtube for "Tony Robbins tells Rocky story")
Have I confused anyone yet?
Oh and ps.. you complained about the diplomatic tenancies of the kids at your school. One day you may realize how much diplomacy is required to pull of a successful business...
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