Well as most people know, high school is more about training you to fit into society more than it is about educating you. College is where the real education is at. Now you can go off about how HS just trains you to be a corporate zombie to the American capitalist machine like everyone does, and that's true to an extend. But you also have to concede that it does help young people learn to fit in. If you don't believe me, find people who went to really small private schools, or worse, home schooling. Their opinions are even more myopic and they risk being socially handicapped.
All this said, I didn't think HS was that great except for a few classes with good teachers and hanging out with my friends. But it's one of those things that "you get what you put into". I left my senior year to do running start and finished my freshman year of college instead, and I thought it was both a good and bad move. It was very smart academically speaking, but I did miss out on a lot of potential good times with my friends.
You can hate the adminstration all you want, but don't forget that they're not there because they want to make your experience miserable. There are very restrictive boundaries that public education has to work within, and along with that is a ton of legal responsibility.
But anyway, despite all this, it does suck for some people. Lots of us were just too mature to fall into the trendy crap that too many HSers are interested in, and want something more. How friendly and mature your class is varies from school to school. I thought my class was pretty laid back and didn't suffer too horribly from lots of the problems that I know are around, but whatever, I'm rambling.
To conclude, enjoy what you can, ignore what sucks (it'll all vanish soon, trust me), and just enjoy being young. Worst case situation: if you really can't stand HS for another year, do what I did, and make the state pay for your college through a headstart program and go to community college. You escape your peers, save money, and learn to be cynical about even more things in the world!
