Since I was a young child, teachers have been prepping my peers and I for the next step of school. From elementary school, we were taught how to act for middle school. From middle school, we were taught how to act for high school. In high school, we were told frequently "no one is going to hold your hand in college." What is this for? Why do these teachers put us students in this position where we expect the next step in our life to be horrible? We bite our nails to the bone in anticipation for the horror to strike, but why? The American school system is only friendly with those who are college-bound. I noticed long ago that my teachers did not care as much for the students who made bad grades. In eighth grade, my teacher let my Honors Geometry class in on a little secret.
"I want you all to realize that no one outside of this room is going to end up going to college or doing anything with their lives." Everyone agreed, but this sat with me for a while. Why would college, an event that lasted four years and put someone hundreds of thousands …show more content…
I have no desire at all. The job I want to do would teach me more on the job in 3 months than I 'd learn in 4 years at school. I am going to college anyway because it has been beaten into my brain that I am worthless if I do not earn my degree. In my school, treatment is obviously different between the academic students and the career technical education students. This blows my mind really. These CTE students can build cars from nothing and build houses and plant entire gardens and we academic students look down on them? I personally can do physics, but cannot even fathom how to change a tire. These CTE students actually know how to handle themselves as adults. They were taught what to do in emergency situations and what to do to get a job. I, along with every other college-bound student, have been told to go to college. But what 's after
"I want you all to realize that no one outside of this room is going to end up going to college or doing anything with their lives." Everyone agreed, but this sat with me for a while. Why would college, an event that lasted four years and put someone hundreds of thousands …show more content…
I have no desire at all. The job I want to do would teach me more on the job in 3 months than I 'd learn in 4 years at school. I am going to college anyway because it has been beaten into my brain that I am worthless if I do not earn my degree. In my school, treatment is obviously different between the academic students and the career technical education students. This blows my mind really. These CTE students can build cars from nothing and build houses and plant entire gardens and we academic students look down on them? I personally can do physics, but cannot even fathom how to change a tire. These CTE students actually know how to handle themselves as adults. They were taught what to do in emergency situations and what to do to get a job. I, along with every other college-bound student, have been told to go to college. But what 's after