so much chips to go with that...

This is a site for jokes. You killed the joke. Why are you here?

it would be funny if it was actually written different or something, the joke was fucking bullshit

here you have mandatory 10 years of school, doesn't matter what kind
in the most common high schools you get 4 or 8 (depends when you decide to get into high school) years of everything, in the last 2 years you get to choose some optional classes to your liking to help you get into college
after graduating this, you don't know shit, that's why you go to college, you only have basics needed to understand higher level in college
OR
you can go to trade school instead of high school and after that get straigh into work or get higher education in your field

if you don't do either, you are either smart and start your own business, or are dumb and start flipping burgers, but for that you didn't have to get into high school, you might as well fail elementary school enough times

with that i also agree, however there should always be few years of mandatory everything since there is basically no way of knowing you really like chemistry after learning names of lab glass
and exactly that is high school, if probably a bit longer than actually needed