Kids For High School

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“We are lending money we don’t have to kids who can’t pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. Thats nuts.” ~ Mike Rowe. Ever since kids were born our society has taught them that fourteen years of education will help them for the rest of their lives. Society has taught them that school is the most vital thing during our youth. Is our society lying to our youth? Nobody has questioned that method for education since people still had to walk both ways up hill to school. Schools aren’t preparing the youth of our society for their futures. Today in high schools teachers are teaching what they are supposed to, but is it going to aid kids in the future? The criteria on which kids in high schools are taught isn’t going to take them …show more content…

Is the purpose of school mainly to keep going with the kids education in college or to prepare kids for a career? Most people would argue it is to prepare kids for college, yet is it necessary. Take google for example, fourteen percent of their employee’s didn’t go to college. If one of the most successful corporations in America hires employees who haven’t gone to college, why do kids need to go to college to get a good job, or why do schools keep preparing kids for college instead of a career (Wilezol). The average salary for a person with just a high school degree is 30,000 dollars at a pedestrian job not a career, while the average teacher makes 57,200 dollars a year. There are countless careers in between that spectrum of money that don’t require a college degree. If somebody without a college degree can earn the same as the people teaching our youths to go to college, should kids even feel the need to go to college. Granted people who have a college degree tend to make more money a year, but there is a downfall, depending on the career it can be harder to find a job …show more content…

We live in a world where getting an excelled education barely puts a person ahead of somebody with half of their education. Those problems with education has caused an unemployment rate in the US of 4.9%. It has also caused a generation of kids who don’t respect education, due to the fact most of the skills they are learning won’t relate to their everyday lives. Brought into education at the age of 4 in preschool a kid leaves their high school education as 18. That is 14 years of a person’s life spent trying to learn skills they will needs for the next let’s say 60 years of their life. Why would the education system waste part of those 14 years making students learn skills they have a very low probability of using for their next 60

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