Have you ever come home and spoke to your high school student about what they learn at school all day? If so, you'd realize that school boards and education systems need to intensify our learning and teach us students more practical information that will later be helpful in our adulthood years to come.
I can proudly say that schools do a good job teaching us the basic life skills like focus and self control, collaboration, problem solving, creative thinking, and decision making but when it comes to life and the real world a lot of wisdom is still needed. I feel as if teachers at school train us to have the mindset that a given amount of effort will always bring a measurable, predictable, and successful result, but outside of school in all actuality it doesn't tend to work like that so I see grades as a thing that distort our perception of reality. As a highschool student myself Ive realized that a lot of knowledge is thrown at me daily, but the knowledge that is given to me is neither important nor used at all in my daily life. In a New York Times article named “What Students Are Saying about How to Improve American Education,” a student quoted that “It feels like once we’ve graduated high school, we’ll be sent out into the world clueless and unprepared. I know many college students who have no idea what they’re doing, as though they left home to become an adult but don’t actually know how to be one. The most I’ve gotten out of school so far was my Civics & Economics class, which hardly even touched what I’d actually need to know for the real world. I barely understand credit and they expect me to be perfectly fine living alone a year from now. We need to learn about real life, things that can actually benefit us. An art student isn’t going to use Biology and Trigonometry in life.” Also, in a Harvard business article by Michael Hansen it is stated that “There’s a direct disconnect between education and employability, where employers view universities and colleges as the gatekeepers of workforce talent, yet those same institutions aren’t prioritizing job skills and career readiness. This not only hurts employers, but also sets the average American worker up for failure before they’ve even begun their career, as new employees who have been hired based on their four-year educational background often lack the actual skills needed to perform in their role” So, after hearing how several high school and college students feel, including me I believe that we should introduce classes that teach us more real world topics like how to pay taxes, how to pay bills, and how to deal with other things like getting insurance in your name. Instead of making math, english, science, and history core requirments they should be making classes like culinary, home economics, and personal finance a part of the worldwide curriculum.