In addition of going to school, working class students also have to get a job to be able to help out their families. Working class students have always struggled to get by during their years in college but most of these students have families who support their dreams of coming out of poverty and become somebody with no pressures. However there are also students who lack family support and deal with these issues alone throughout college. According to the New York Times article For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall, “Likely reasons [that low income students drop out of college]
Paying athletes to play would create a huge gap in college sports because of the ability to pay more at the bigger schools. The title XI would make it so that all college players have to be paid equally. That would create a problem that they cannot pay all students athletes. That would call for some college sports to be cut and that is taking away opportunities for people. The first thing that these student athletes should be worrying about is there academics and with all the extra money they would get for playing would break their concentration and create more nationally know problems in the college sports world.
In Alison Schneider’s essay, “Frumpy or Chic? Tweed or Kente” Sometimes Clothes Make the Professor” Camille Paglia says, “Yes, teaching is a performance art. But when the teacher hijacks the classroom for self-display – of fashion or mannerism or cult of personality – we have a corruption of education (143).” Some believe that their professors should use the classroom for self-display. People want their professors to look professional and clean-cut, and of course personality is important as well because without a personality, the professor is just plain boring. Without a sports jacket and dress pants professors look trashy and can’t be taken seriously.
«The challenges of becoming a solicitor are deterring many able candidates from entering the profession». Discuss the extent to which this is true. Several criticisms can be made on how the challenges of becoming a solicitor deter many able candidates from becoming solicitors. The main challenge that put candidates off becoming solicitors are the cost, the increasing university fees does not help. Since 2012 the cost for one year, at university (fees), has been as high as £9,000.
“The Case Against College Education” Thesis: College is not for everyone and it is absurd that society puts so much pressure on attending it. SR# 1: We are pushing students into college who are not meant for it. -40% of students who enrolled in college drop out. SR# 2: Benefits of putting more people in college are oversold. -the college wage premium is an illusion.
Students could study different fields such as Air Conditioning repair to animal care to automotive technician. These courses have fallen by the wayside because of the emphasis on college degrees. Skilled labors such as cooks, mechanics, and nurses are in high demand. High school student have come to believe that working one of these jobs means failure. John Ratzenbereger alleges the “The celebrity culture has stigmatized the American high school student to think that only low-class people work with their hands, and so goes the implied message”.
In other words, the contemporary pressure for money influences many lower-income students to enter college with inadequate funds, which ultimately forces them to drop out of college. Meanwhile, many universities struggle with a sufficient response to this alarming collegiate quandary. While Leonhardt fails to accurately represent certain points, his argument is certainly effective at explaining the relationship between education and socioeconomic class that contributes to the alarming rate of college dropouts. In his writing, "The College Dropout Boom," Leonhardt informs his readers that the probability for lower-income students to drop out of college is
If you take extra classes (or credits) but they are soft-ball classes (like basket-weaving or calisthenics), this looks just as bad. The best high school transcript will show consistent grades in a challenging course load with challenging classes. AP classes or advanced classes impress colleges and tell them that you are ready for college–level work You won't impress an admissions committee by asking for a tour of the all–night study lounge. Yes, colleges want bright students. But even more, they want bright, well–rounded students.
There are college stopouts due to race gender and not enough money to pay for college. Troubles with the economy have caused college stopouts to occur as well. Higher education, or college is getting more expensive by the years, and is becoming more and more of a pain to pay for. According to the article, “students from low-income backgrounds in particular may find they need to take time off from school to save money or to help their families pay their bills” (Terriquez, Gurantz, Gomez, 2013). With this being said with these students having to focus on their financial issues, it is going to be a struggle for them to afford both their bills and college cost.
They have the tendency to be self absorbed, worrying more about their appearance than anything else. Most of them are insecure about themselves but hide behind their money and designer clothes. It is not unusual for them to lie and gossip about one another just to get to the top of their clique. After high school some grown up and realize there are more important things in life while the others still need materialistic stuff throughout their life to be happy. In high school we all get a label, sometimes its one we spend decades trying to live up to, where others spend a lifetime trying to forget those painful years.