Failure is a judgement, and only your perspective. You’re a high school student, with a life provided for and managed by to date your parents. You have to wait until you have to run your own life and live and die by your own decisions before you’re entitled to have an opinion on success/failure of adults. For you, right now, success is measured by academic grades, which is an artificial system of measuring “success.” How’s your GPA? Sitting on a 4.0, are we? College scholarships? Full ride to a top 10 school?