“What do you want to be when you grow up?” is the phrase most children hear in elementary school. From then on we have to start making decisions to decided how to got forward with that career. College is for everyone, but our society does not make it easy for it to be that way. To go to college you need time, money, and stupendous study skills. College is for everyone that is why it is so important in our society today. This is why everyone is push to go. Robert T. Perry said in his essay Real Education, “ Just a decade ago, we led all other industrialized nations in this area…Now, we rank tenth behind other nations in the percentage of young adults with postsecondary credentials.” A decade ago we did not have the technology we do now. There where not nearly the amount of jobs then as there are today, and the jobs that have …show more content…
Also the teacher gets paid for how well the pupils do in their class room, so some teachers just give children the grades they need to pass without actually helping them learn the proper material. In turn they go on to the next grade with confusion and frustration. This cycle keeps repeating till college, where if they don't know the material they are failed and are stuck with low income jobs. In most cases the High school curriculum is not anywhere near what it needs to be for children to get ready to enter college. In the essay IS COLLEGE FOR EVERYONE? written by Pharinet says,”Though drop out rates vary, it is estimated that in the U.S., approximately 50% of students who being college never graduate”. Half of the people who start college never graduate, if we had a better way to teach and help children understand rather than just just pushing them though grade to grade maybe we could lower that