I believe that education standards should be increased to a more difficult level. Public Schools are too easy. In a regular class, you show up, and you get your B. A student could sleep half of the class and still end up passing. Honors classes for the 'smart kids' are not that hard. I feel that the honor classes' standards should become mandatory. They are not hard classes, they just make the student actually do the work and pay attention. Advanced classes should actually be for smarter students instead of normal classes being for slackers. This idea could greatly increase the intelligence level across many countries.
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Low standards are the problem. If Bs are acceptable, then I'll go for Bs. If I can get Bs while smoking pot every day, get shitfaced every weekend and never cracking open my textbook, then why shouldn't I?
Smart kids can do all those things, in honors classes, and get As. Why? Our society is focused on standardized test scores - if we make the test easy enough, our kids are going to be crazy smart. At least they'll appear so.
I had this exact sort of alienation for two years at my standard-issue, shit public school. Then I applied to the North Carolina School of Science and Math, (there are similar schools, which copied mine, in a bunch of other states. Illinois' is supposed to be really good too) where there is a culture of accepting challenge and meeting that challenge. While I now get Bs, I actually learn, and have fun doing so, in a place where I actually have to study. (At my old school, I could walk into chemistry class, realize that we had a test, pass it with the highest score in class without breaking a sweat.) I'd encourage you to look into magnet schools or scholarships to private schools if you are feeling that there are no academic challenges left to you.