How Does The United States Benefit From Schools

Landon Monro

Ms. Norgard

Block 7AB

Date: 3/29/18

Teaching Entrepreneurship in Schools

Small business in the United States are the backbone for the ever changing economy. According to Kyle Racki the CEO of proposify,“For the last twenty years, small businesses have been responsible for creating two out of every three (64%) of net new jobs”. Who owns small businesses? Entrepreneurs do. In current school systems students are being groomed to think that they have to be a lawyer or a doctor to be successful in life (Herold). It’s imperative that every student begin to learn entrepreneurial skills through specific programs of study. This brings up a controversial question: How would the United States benefit from schools implementing entrepreneurship

Students of all ages are being taught that there is only one solution to a specific problem when in reality there will always be more options available. The main goal of K-12 schools is to focus on preparing their students for the future. The future varies from student to student as some will go to college and some will forgo that for the opportunity to get a job. Specific research that was conducted by Kyle Racki explains how the K-12 system only prepares students to become good employees. The problem with this is, not all students are able to flourish under that environment. Take a few of the most successful entrepreneurs ever for example. Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates were all at one time students who did not succeed in school (Herold). They were able to succeed later in life after they were taught the principles of entrepreneurship like how to run a business and how to manage money etc. The school system's inability to encourage entrepreneurial thinking keeps students from reaching not only their goals but their full potential in

The first being the economy and the second being jobs and job growth as a whole. Entrepreneurship is “a vital role player in the growth of the U.S. economy” “Bureau of Labor Statistics”. When schools discourage entrepreneurship it may not have an immediate effect on the country but over time a noticeable decline in job growth as well as economic growth will be seen. In the United States “Over the past two decades, new establishments have created an average of more than four million new jobs per year” (Mills). In order for the country to prosper this number needs to continue to increase in the coming years. Without the teaching of entrepreneurship principles and ideals and more teaching of being a “good employee” students will lose the opportunity to develop a higher level of divergent thinking. According to a study conducted by Saied Karimi , “Pre- vs. post-test comparisons showed the students who followed the course to subsequently have a higher level of divergent thinking, also with respect to the students who did not enrol in the course.” The loss of divergent thinking would lead to less students pursuing a career in entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs “fuel American innovation, make our industries more globally competitive and create new jobs across our economy” (Mills). When K-12 systems across the country realize this, the American