It's mildly amusing in a ridiculous way when school children think they're all that because they have a boyfriend or girlfriend.
Or they think they're oh so mature and grown up because they're going out with someone.
And yet, within the relationship, they invariably think and act like what they are. School children.
You being pained by the remarks of school children is just you being a school child. Which is OK because that's what's you are.
At this stage it makes a lot of sense to treat this as a preparation stage in your life.
So that if you've really got everything together you should be preparing yourself to live as a fully functioning independent adult.
The trouble is, so few 17 year olds do this effectively. Because they don't have the right mentors and guidance in their life.
So that you should be focusing on:
Learning to drive and passing your test.
Learning about nutrition and cooking and food shopping.
Learning how to set and manage your budget. For balancing your income and spending and investing it wisely.
Learning academic stuff.
Learning social skills, including man to woman social skills.
Learn how to earn loads of money for yourself and learn how to do it in a way that you will be content enough with the day to day process of earning that money. Learning this is more important than the academic stuff.
If you get a chance to spend time with an ugly girl, you should take it. Whilst keeping her in perspective with all the other learning stuff you're doing.
You want to learn so much about interacting with girls that when the right woman comes along, you're prepared. And because you're an empath, you'll want the ugly girl to learn as much about boys as she can and to build her confidence up as much as you can. IE leave her in a better place than when you first met.
There's a few places you can go for great free advice on man to woman social skills. And then from there you should aim to practise, practise, practise, practise, check your learning and back to practise, practise, practise.
The better you prepare yourself now, the easier your life will be from 2027 onwards.