Why School Is Not Teaching Us How To Plan For The Future?

I personally feel as if school is not actually teaching us anything. School is set up to where you take numerous test every single week studying to remember information for those test. It’s all about memorization, I feel like we as students don’t actually take in and understand the information we’re being taught. We just study so that the topic is in on our brain for the test, and after the test is over its gone and replaced with new information week in and week out. Half of the things they teach us in school aren’t even important to our future, and I cannot stress this enough. Where in my life time will I need to know the exact time and date of some ancient war, when in a real life situation will I need to know the slope of X times Y translated
I don’t really understand the point of it all. Schools should teach us how to plan for the future, how to make a more advanced community, world even. Not lecture us about 90 year old facts. If you want to become a historian or something of that sort then more power to you, but what about all the rest of us? School systems are basically wasting our time with this stuff, when we could be learning and becoming more advanced at doing what we actually want to do with our lives. I guess being forced to go to school and sit through classes for the first 12 years of your life is the average way of humanity, but I feel like things need to change and school shouldn’t be forceful learning. You should still be required to go to school, but I think school should focus on advancing us as humans instead of holding us in the past, and teaching us useless
People will not need to know the Pythagorean Theorem when they graduate high school or which elements hydrogen forms a polar bond with. I believe that many schools focus on teaching students the basic knowledge in each subject but in my opinion, I feel like we should only learn about these classes to an extent…If I want to grow up to be a painter, I don’t need to study algebra even though it’s required. Schools need to focus more on letting the students focus on the path they want to take rather than overwhelming them with a bunch of useless work. Schools also need to teach life skills like buying a house and paying taxes! Also grammar! And classes need to be more fun. I think the leading cause of high school dropouts is because the students were bored in