I am not qualified to comment on whether there is a problem with education in China, although I think there is no problem on the whole.
From two points of view, why do I strongly suggest you go back to school?
First of all, you are only 17 years old. I never say how old a person is. This idea is wrong and immature. I only said that your ideas at the age of 17 will get your disapproval in the long years to come. But by that time, many things can't go back. Society is progressing. Every time we move forward, we need people with cultural literacy. Don't trust those chicken soup, anyone who doesn't study should be the boss, and those who have studied for a postgraduate doctor should work for them. This may happen, but it is not common. In my opinion, the school is not a closed place at all, but a small society, where you should learn to get along with teachers and classmates with different personalities, learn to improve your own weaknesses, and learn to take care of others' emotions by words and actions. . . These things have to be learned at school, because children are still young, and they are still together when they say the wrong things. But if they really graduate from society, they may say something wrong or do something wrong, and they will be isolated by each other, and many people will not give you another chance.
I really don't understand your family and neighbors. In this era, there are still propaganda books that are useless. Are they stupid? Reading is the fastest way to broaden one's horizons and develop one's intelligence when one can't take Wan Li Road to increase one's experience. Forget the neighbors. After all, they won't worry about your future life, they will only gossip. But your family, it is hard for me to understand, for what reason, is it family economic reasons or just this idea. I can understand some reasons of family economy, but the difficulties at this time are temporary. If you really give up studying and look for a job, you may never go up, and then the difficulties will become permanent. If this is the idea, I hope you will think about it and jump out by yourself, because it is too backward.
Then, talk about your idea of looking for a job now. If you give up studying now, I really don't know what promising job you can take. With all due respect, in the eyes of society, is your good grades in junior high school an academic qualification? No job will use you to do a job that requires academic qualifications because of your good grades in junior high school. A person's life is actually very short. You can't feel it now 17 years old. When you are in your twenties, you will find that all your dreams and wishes may be far away, and they may all be in the next life. Still worry about tomorrow's daily necessities. Then you will need to fall in love, get married, have children and provide for the elderly, which will hardly give you other time to look forward to better pursuits. This is the same for those who study and those who don't. The difference is that if a reader makes a transition or leap between the ages of 20 and 35, he will bring capital, while a non-reader will not.
Maybe there are some unexpected surprises in life. Winning the lottery and digging for treasures will make you rich overnight, or you are strange in your bones and destined to be the dragon among people, but do you want to pin your life on it?
I can't give you advice on going to work without studying. I suggest you go back to school to prepare for the senior high school entrance examination, enter a good high school and enter a good university. I'm from school, too. I also experienced three painful and gloomy years in high school. As long as I take a step to the left and right, I can't go back to today. I clearly know that some children have a healthy and good attitude from birth to death, always optimistic and positive, bringing help and happiness to others; And some children, in their teens, will have countless gloomy thoughts because of their surrounding environment, which will magnify many bad things and ignore good things. That's what I am. You said there was something wrong with education in China. I thought the pressure of junior high school and senior high school should be part of it, but in retrospect, I don't think it was bad. Because when I was in junior high school, especially in senior three, I was under great psychological pressure and gloomy, but I was surrounded by some good teachers and classmates. They don't necessarily know psychology, but their daily life subtly infected me, so I didn't deviate from left to right. When you persist in high school for three years and go to college, you will find that it is a brand-new world. Your vision and mentality have been broadened dozens of times at once, and the setbacks you thought before are very small.
Arm yourself, don't give up the opportunity to choose a better life and experience for your future in such a beautiful time.