Preparing Our Children for Success with Education

School is something from day one that our parents and society are preparing us for. You go through elementary school learning the basics for school. Moving onto high school where you then in the four years there must make one of the biggest decisions of your life: what do I want to be when I grow up. Once you choose what you are going to be when you grow up you apply to university and college. One thing though that you are not told when your younger is the expenses of school and saving money towards it. You are always told that you need school and you have to go to school. But never how expensive school really is in Canada especially in Ontario. As easy as it sounds to get an education to get a good job, it really is not like that there are other factors. As much as people say money is not everything, yes in some cases this is believed to be true. But the really question is, is money really not everything? When you think about it, we need money, whether we want to admit it or not. Nowadays you need an education to get a half decent job it is not like years ago where a high school diploma was enough. To get that education you need money and a lot of it in Canada. But there are barriers to being able to afford an education and it results in high amount of student debt. Some people are not able to attend post-secondary education because they do not qualify for funding. Why as a society are we forced to pay thousands of dollars in education, when we have no choice but to attend because we need a career? Other countries around the world do not have this problem with student debt so why does Canada have to.

Government funding and student loans are one of the great solutions to be able to afford to go to school. In Ontario people have...

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...l be a lot less stressful, education is the key. Let me tell you what your parents will tell you. Make me proud. Increases your chance of getting a job, provides an opportunity to be successful, your life will be a lot less stressful, education is the key,” (2012). Our whole lives we are told to get an education but never how to finance for it. Well it is time for the Canadian education system to look at the above problems students are having to finance school. They need to start taking a closer look at European countries and the reasons why they can make education afford and what they need to do differently. There is definitely a way to change the system it is just a matter of taking the action to do so. So I leave it with you how long before students cannot afford to go to school at all? Or before student debt takes up the majority of their lives to pay it back?