Students Should Not Be Allowed In High School

“I’m not really sure yet, and this decision is killing me,” said a young student. “You’re 13. You need to decide your career,” insisted a pushy guidance counselor as stress and confusion overtook the child. If students had to choose their career before high school, this would happen extremely too often. It would change our society in a negative way, until someone decided to fix it. Freshmen in high school should not be required to choose their career that early because it would cause overwhelming stress, make life and experiences more limited, and make switching decisions difficult. To begin, selecting a career as early as the age of 13 could cause extreme stress and overwhelming situations. Having to make life changing decisions such as this, at a young age, could scar a student for life and result in mistakes. When I was in the eighth grade, I had to choose a learning path for my high school education. That …show more content…
If students only focused on one thing their whole life, they would never know more or be well rounded. For instance, if someone learned about one thing their whole life and then could’t find a job in their field, their whole education would be worthless. Also, the experience of having fun and being involved in activites in high school would be hard to achieve. Overall, students missing out on fun and experiences is a reason they should not choose their jobs that early. Additionally, choosing careers before high school would make it hard to change career paths. Once they started their classes it would be hard to change careers and classes if the student was dissatisfied. For example, a student may decide to be a doctor and then want to change their mind and not be able to switch. Then they would have to live with it for the rest of their life. In the end, choosing careers at such a young age could lead to unsatisfaction and wanting to