The Importance Of Classing In High School

For some students, the question of what to do after high school may be a burden to even contemplate as it approaches quicker and quicker. The pressure to continue another four (or more) years of education after high school can be overwhelming considering twelve years of schooling has already been completed; why go right back to school again? When’s break time? Some people are simply just not ready for college and they know it, or at least until after they have had a long break or have had some time to recollect themselves. Technically speaking college isn’t for everyone, nor is it necessarily needed for a career. Luckily today, there are many other options that potential career seeking beings can get a head start on such as community colleges and trade/vocational schools. These alternatives to a four year college are considered to be a good start on a job (and maybe even a career). The best benefits of these alternatives involve the cost of attending, the student environment, and the degrees offered.

More often than not, young students are taught to believe that they must go to a prestigious university to obtain a Bachelor’s degree or higher in order to have a fulfilling and satisfying career. This may hold true for some people, but others do not need to follow this same path. For students who choose a career that isn’t considered conventional or isn’t high in pay, they tend to be looked down upon which pressures them into choosing career paths that they do not have a passion for, or the skill set to actually accomplish which makes college a waste of time and money. While everyone should be encouraged to get an education beyond high school, people should be encouraged to get the education that is relevant and proper for them to make sure they are getting their money’s worth.

As the price to attend college increases throughout the years many young adults are experiencing increasing difficulty in being able to pay for such an endeavor and many more are beginning to question whether or not it’s worth the price due to the faltering of the economy. The price tag may be the most common concern about getting a college education but another important factor that many students consider when applying for college is how much time they will need to devote to school. Many prospective students think that the time spent in a college math class is a waste when they are majoring in the arts. This results in many students deciding against getting a college education in favor for finding a source of income to support themselves and due to the lack of employment opportunities available today the decision to choose an income over an education is really a matter of survival. However, this is the beginning of a slippery slope that can easily lead to a population that is severely lacking in education which can lead to a disaster in a country where the nations populace are the ones making decisions with their vote. I believe it is time to make education not only cheaper, but more accessible to more people across the country by eliminating course requirements and majors in order to allow students to seek out an education that is tailored to the subject they are seeking to pursue. Doing so will not only result in a lower cost of college by eliminating useless and

CLASS is the most recent failure at the federal level to create a national program that provides long-term care insurance. The ACA attempted to work around the fact by making CLASS a voluntary and self-sustaining program under difficult political constraints, policymakers tried to walk a narrow line; they aimed to offer a substantial benefit. CLASS would have been unsustainable and would still have left beneficiaries exposed to substantial costs. One positive note, CLASS brought long-term care back onto the federal policy agenda after a 20 years absence, serving as an important reminder that the nation's current to financing long-term care is adequate.

It is a well known fact but there are many people including counselors, parents, teachers, and friends who resist saying it out loud for fear it will sound like discouragement and negativity: college is definitely not for everyone. The pressure on high schools students, especially those that excel, to attend a college or university is enormous. And in the case of a bright, industrious and motivated high school student, attending a college or university is an obvious career choice. For those students, it's only a matter of what university to attend, whether one's SAT score is high enough, and the availability of the money. Then there are the millions of high school students who are not really personally motivated but are being pressured by their counselors, teachers and parents should they attend college if they really don't care? This paper examines those issues.

Today, many students are settling for jobs immediately out of high school instead of furthering their education in college. Students should consider how necessary college actually is for their lives in the future. It provides one with a significant amount of opportunities, a greater knowledge about their career plan, and a better sense of responsibility.

Students are provided with the freedom to choose the courses that benefit us in the long run. Not only that but we have other curriculum to stress free from all the studying and hard work. In addition to these sports, technical education, arts, foreign languages, drama, debate, choir, and more such

I believe that students should not be required to take more classes in career-oriented subjects. During your college years, it is very rare that students finish with the same major they started with going into college. For example, my aunt went into college wanting to be a news anchor, and finished with a major in business management. Another reasoning is this would limit the expansion of knowledge that students get in school.

Elective courses can additionally provide guidance to high school students when it comes to occupational choice. It is written that, “…Roslyn High School recently added nine electives, many in business specialties like sports and entertainment marketing, investments, and accounting because many of its graduates pursue business careers” (Hu, 2008, para. 7). It is difficult for students to discover if they would truly enjoy a professional career by simply knowing they enjoy math class. When high schools grant students the opportunity to take elective courses that are extremely similar to an actual occupation,

Highschool should be more based on the job you will be going into when you grow up. In high school everyone takes the same general classes to get credit. This doesn’t help many kids succeed and even brings many down. Classes should be based around the job field your going into like if you are pursuing as an example an accountant you should take lots of math and business oriented classes and not chemistry. Scientists shouldn’t have to take as many english classes and should take more science classes. The reason some teenagers are not interested in school is because when they leave that high school they aren’t going to need to know how to find the amount of moles of element there are, or how to find the hypotenuse of a triangle. Those things

Every child should be able to dream big and not worry about having to settle with the average job or no job at all because we live in a world abundant with opportunities. Even though change might not happen with today’s generation of students, there is still hope for the children of the

Imagine yourself being a high school student your senior year, for many student’s college is there first option while others seek to work instead. A high school senior, has a very big choice a head of them by either going to college or going to work. Now for many high school students the decision process can be stressful and long, as high school student have to weigh their options. Many students see the required classes that they must take and wonder why these classes are required when they have taken them. These classes should be optional for student to be able to take their own interest in them.

Parents push their children to have more academic jobs and majors to improve their child's “status.” But when a student with high academic achievement chooses to have a vocational style job it is seen as unfortunate or even a waste of genius and intellect. Students should have the opportunity to be trained in whatever careers they want, even if it is a more vocational job like a trade instead of an academic job. If these students find these vocational jobs more meaningful than any academic job they should have the right to choose them because of their pursuit of happiness.

would not consider themselves in poverty, they would think they were middle class.” He also noted that districts that have markedly higher scores across America have a few things in common and affluence is one of them. He expressed an interest in looking at ways to educate the parents when we had captive audiences, such as an open house, to some of the Ruby Payne professional development. We tabled the discussion and moved forward with the agenda to identify the areas of concern from the data. Based on the data collected respect was not an issue across the school but it was interesting to see that students graded themselves more disrespectful than other stakeholders. The academic classes were perceived to be most important to all stakeholders as opposed to the extra-curricular activities and supplemental programs offered. Across all groups of stakeholders rigor was only seen in some classes and not all. Almost 90% of the teachers indicated this was an issue. All stakeholders except the parents were satisfied overall with SCHS.

It was registration day at Greenfield-Central High School and my counselor was getting impatient. “Even though you’re an exchange student, you still need a Math class”, she said in annoyance. After two hours debating, I gave up and she put me in Pre-Calculus, a class that “would be perfect for me because of my records”. Although I agreed with her, I felt like my world was collapsing: a high-level Math class in a foreign language was the last thing I wanted to have as my American high school experience. The only thoughts in my mind were how horribly I would fail the class, and how much humiliation I would take this year.