Does School Prepare Students For Adult Life Essay

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Does school really prepare students for adult life? Your going to school everyday, but are you really learning things useful for post-graduation? If someone were to approach you at graduation and ask you to name 13 useful things that you learned throughout your 13 years in school; would you be able to do it? Some people believe that school does not provide students with necessary knowledge. All they teach is a theory which not everybody can practice, while school does not even give basic skills. Since there is no choice of subjects, students have to learn everything in curriculum even if they will not use that in their future lives. So, is school really helping young adults prepare for entrance into the real world? The answer is no!…show more content…
And for most, they do. But is the curriculum coercive or counter productive? Their time in math class would be better spent learning how to make a household budget, and how to invest than it is to learn how to perform algebraic equations. Their time in science would be better utilized teaching children how to live off the land, and learn how to better sustain their environment rather than memorize the table of periodic elements. Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to mandate the cross-country learning of secondary languages such as Spanish and Chinese so that children and graduates would be able to communicate in the world they live in? All these should be changes in the subjects to ready students for work. After kids finish high school they attend college, a world a freedom! Of choice! You can pick all of your classes, pick your major, even invent a major! Study abroad, switch from economics to veterinary science just by filling out a form, play sports, start clubs, join a fraternity, take summer and winter classes. You’re in charge of
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