It's a complete waste of money
. I attended a public secondary school and I ended up dropping out age 16 and attending college (not because I'm dumb, I'm a B+/A- student, I just didn't like school enough to have stayed on). Hardly worth the £10k/year it cost my parents. Although it's worth it for the fun, as some of the greatest people I ever met were there
I kind of miss them as I have fallen out of touch with about 80% of them.