The Importance Of Education In High School

In this essay I will argue that high school I will argue that high school students not let people around them influence them to enroll into college right after their high school career because it often leads to wasted money, long term financial issues, including stress and many other factors that come with long term effects.

Although knowing how to manage money, budget, and finance does not guarantee life will be a piece of cake, failing to understand can come with consequences. Many students are going into college and starting careers without knowing how to properly manage their finances, save money, or invest. In her article, Yes: Ignorance Carries a High Price, Annamaria Lusardi uses driving as an example. Lusardi mentions how there are many precautions taken in

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

How to properly manage money is something that should be taught to young people because it is a very important asset in everyday life. “Total consumer debt in the United States stands at nearly $2.6 trillion dollars. That works out to be nearly $8,500 in debt for every man” (Anderson). Many times teenagers are known for “throwing away” their money by spending it on unnecessary things. This is something that could easily be avoided if students were taught the proper techniques on saving and spending money. There are many different skills that students could learn if personal finance was taught in the school system. Managing money is one of those very important skills and would help to lessen the number of young people spending irresponsibly instead of

I have not attended many different schools but I know that they all have more than one thing in common, and these things need to be changed somehow, they are just not working. Whether you are attending primary school, secondary school or college there are always issues with how we are taught, what is being taught to us and how will it help us at the end of the day. I am sure there are many reasons why we are taught the way we are and why we need to learn these things. The list is endless. My entire school life I have come to discover patterns from different students including myself. Attending school and learning is not boring or tiring. The schedule, the process and the reasoning behind going to school is unfitting.

According to the National Financial Educators Council, youth across America are slowly becoming illiterate when it comes to their personal finances. A study was introduced by Beierlein & Neverett (2013) through Harris Interactive for the National Council of Economic Education that stated, “Participants, 3,512 adults aged 18 and above and 2,242 students in grades 9-12, took a 24 question quiz on economics and personal finance. The adults surveyed scored an average grade of 70%, while the students ' average was 53%. Nearly 30% of the adults and 60% of the students failed the quiz. Ironically, although 97% of the adults

Through out school, starting all the way back from kindergarten and up through high school, students are taught a various amount of skills. In kindergarten students learn basic shapes, the ABC’s, and colors. In first grade it is numbers all the way up to one hundred. Then kids begin to learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, history, science, algebra, English, and then BOOM. Nowhere in that long list are students taught any sort of actual communication skills. Nor are they taught any hands-on experience, besides if they are looking to be a welder, a wood worker, an auto mechanic, or working with pottery in their future. Nowhere in school are students taught how to express empathy. When it comes close to the final deadline and it is time for students to graduate, it can become confusing, and students may appear as to be lost in where to go or what to do. In some cases school can seem to blind students with a lot of homework, which does not seek any importance in ones future. Mark Twain, who was an intelligent American writer, once said, “I have never let my school interfere with my education” (Guise).Therefore, there is so many life skills that students are not taught in schooling how to excel in life.

In Japan, where I’m from, education is mandatory, and children need to go to elementary school and junior high school until 15 years old. Homeschooling is excluded from mandatory education in Japan. I was schooled in public elementary school and public junior high school. Education in high school is not mandatory in Japan, but I took and passed entrance exam of a prestigious and public high school held by the prefecture I lived in. After finishing education of high school, I passed the entrance exam of private university of foreign studies. Then, I have been participating in the one-year exchange program of studying in the United States. I was schooled by having been studying for more than 15 years.

Martin Luther King helped desegregate the education system through peace and non aggression acts, yet some schools are mostly one race. Many schools in public areas such as New York have poor facilities and terrible teaching methods( methods used to get students ready for the working class and not their preferred career). Different places in society offer different educational experience than other places. Articles like “From Social Class And The Hidden Curriculum Of Work” from Jean Anyon and “ Still Separate, Still Unequal” by Jonathan Kozol help shine light on the problems; Different schools have different curriculums, many school are resegregated, and how poorly the segregated school are teaching.

Most parents dream of their children graduating high school, going to college, and attaining a desirable job. But what most parents do not know is that the high school education system is impeding their children of these dreams. There are countless reasons high school students are graduating ill-prepared for college, but of the many, the two that stand out the most are apathetic teachers, which could be resolved by an increased salary and more frequent meetings, and substantially large schools, which could be handled by reducing the school/class size. These two contributing factors are crucial in determining a college student’s success or failure, and the solutions are easily achievable.

I envision IntelliSchool as a place of high school students who have enrolled to finish their high school education that might have been hindered by someone or something. I personally admire these people, who regardless of the struggles they have faced, they still have the audacity to keep growing as a human being. As a public charter school, IntelliSchool is a diverse environment that includes all kinds of socioeconomic groups and ethnicities. Some of my biggest fears are not being able to adapt quickly to their form of learning. Since it is a self-paced education, each student learns different material every day, and are usually afraid to ask questions. As the days progress I am sure that I will gain their trust and ask for help more openly. My biggest concern is not being familiar with the material being learned by the students and still having to explain it to them. As an ASU intern, I know they see me as a "know-it-all" but the truth is, I am only two years ahead of them so there is not much educational difference. By working with young adults, I am positive that I am going to learn as much from them as they are going to learn from me. Some of my expectations are to grasp a general idea of the way each student learns and then develop ways in which I can incorporate these concepts into my classes. Although I do not perceive behavior as a major challenge, I do expect some disrespect or frustration towards me from being unable to help them correctly.

At my old high school, athletics were a very big deal. The school was pretty much known for how great the sports teams were. There was so much school spirit and everyone supported every sport. Whether it was a car wash for the cheerleaders, or a bake sale for volleyball, you could bet on school support. With a school like this, everyone becomes a part of a family. We even had a saying that we put on almost all the shirts: “Ex Familia Fortitudo”. This means strength through family. To me, this is how all schools should be. But, in situations like this, the education aspect is sometimes forgotten. The students often lose track of what the goal is.

I completed my high school December 2014 in Kenya. When I was getting ready to join university 2015, I luckily won myself a green card lottery and moved to the U.S August 2015, at the age of 18. I stayed under the care of my uncle for 4 months until life became so unbearable that I decided to move and find my way out. It was very hard, but I was able to find a job that I was working 10 hours a day for seven days in a week up to when I saved a good amount of money that enabled me to start my life here in the US.

Many teachers and professors get asked daily questions about the importance of school by their students. Students often think the importance of school is to help you prepare for a job. From experience, many people disagree with this. Not only does school help you prepare for a job, it helps students learn basic life skills and what’s going on in the world. School is important for getting a good job, succeeding in life, and learning a vocation.

Across the U.S., there are 15 million students attending 26,407 public high schools. These high schools vary to an astonishing degree- student population can range from a couple dozen to over 13,000. The high school a student attends will have a large impact on their life, and when high schools are so diverse, it’s unsettling to think about the range of quality of education being given to students.