Are Too Many People Going To College Is Not For Everyone Essay

College is Not for Everyone If you go to high school in Michigan, you know that you do not get to pick very many of the classes you take. The state of Michigan has come up with a set of standards every student has to follow and demands every student take the SAT, so the students will be prepared for college. There is just one essential thing that the state overlooks with this thinking. Not every student in the state of Michigan is going to go to college or should even go to college. As a result some kids grow up thinking they are lesser than other students, because they were not being prepared for the right next step for themselves. Those are same students are being push and pressured into colleges by their schools, parents, and society, even though they will not be able to handle and would be much better off if they went to some vocational training. This is why we need to thinking of the state, schools, and parents. Some of you might not know what classes required for high school students …show more content…
In Are Too Many People Going to College, Charles Murray who is an libertarian political scientist, sociologist, author, and columnist, gives the example of a man who has average interpersonal and intrapersonal ability which would him an average manger, but is in 95th percentile for small-motor skills and spatial abilities that would make him a good electrician. “He begins by looking up he average income of electricians and managers on the Bureau of Labor Statistics website, and finds the average annual income for electricians in 2005 was $45,630, only about half of the $88,450 mean for the management occupations. It looks as if getting a B.A. will buy him a huge wage premium. Should he try to get a B.A. on economic