Doesn't help me now

 At school you're taught bout weird skills

Learn painting, words and other thrills

Such pretty thoughts on window sills

It doesn't help me now 

I know the names of kings and queens

And know which hue is evergreen

Who cares which artist painted Scream

It doesn't help me now

You go to collage, learn a trade

But wasted years on a parade 

To learn what Arthur Fry* had made

It doesn't help me now

I wish they'd taught bout saving cash

Or gave exams on types of rash

But learning types of trees called Ash

It doesn't help me now

Though now I'm rather good at games

And many quizzes are quite tame

Okay, quite good with random names

So I suppose it helps me now

* Inventor of Post it notes.