College has become essential, in this day in age, for a person to have a good job. In previous generations, college was not as important. People could hold jobs that people nowadays would need a bachelor 's, or even a masters degree. College has become almost essential for anyone to have a high paying, steady job or career. Before we know it, people will need a college degree just to work at McDonald’s as a cashier. With college, students are now being asked to decide their future careers in high school and sometimes middle school. In some parts in the world, students go to a degree specific high school. These students have to be decided on a career by the time they finish eighth grade. I feel that making a child choose his or her career in middle school, or in some cases high school, can be detrimental to the child. College preparation is essential, but not at a young age. Many …show more content…
Burnout takes place when a child starts something too early and become uninterested in it when they get older. When starting college prep too early, a child might become uninterested in college when the time comes for him or her to go to college. This is known as college burnout. Thomas Frank states, “ An extended period of time where someone experiences exhaustion and a lack of interest in things, resulting in a decline in their job performance.” So a lack of performance and extreme exhaustion are all signs of college burnout. Socrates would even disagree with what some parents are doing nowadays. Socrates, in Plato’s Republic, believed that formal education should not start until a child is eighteen. He believed that the early years in a person’s life should be more devoted to having fun with some simple schooling. Right now, in America, children start formal schooling at the age of four or five. This has proved to be successful in most cases, but in some instances, young students burnout by the third