A thing that frustrated me is that you have to follow the program designed for the average kid. When I was young, I was particularly talented in science and jumped two classes as a result.

However I do not think that my situation was ideal, I was bullied alot more than other kids because I was younger. And the level in science was still weak for myself.

A better system may be to teach earlier classes by level instead of forcing everybody to have the same level in all subjects.

That would have two side effects. First, you would be able at a younger age to show more interest in a particular subject and progress more quickly. Then it would solve the problem of the classes to follow the speed of the slowest.

(sorry for my English, it is not my first language and, obviously I always sucked at any non-science subject.

You forgot that most of high school teachers cannot answer these questions either. Outside of the things there were taught, they tend to be like your average slightly more educated person on general knowledge

I think what the guy who posted above you meant, is that "I can see why a system developer would implement this", not "I see why an application developer would do this".

Just do a breakdown analysis, of yourself versus other solutions.

Other solutions include:

• Hiring contractors
• Outsource the support
• Remove the support (sacking yourself)

Just put figures on all the alternatives and back them up by examples in other departments or studies found on the internet. If you cannot put figures, try to come up to a sensible figure and explain your calculation. Go straight to the point and avoid details that nobody (but yourself) cares about.

Put also previsions for the next year and easy to understand graphs, a plan for the next business year and ideas of what could be bought/invested to improve the cost efficiency of yourself and your boss.