High school is an essential part of a person’s life as it is the final years of school before they turn 18, graduate, and face the adult world. It is the point in their lives where they are left to fend for themselves and make their own decisions. But does graduating high school mean you know what the world is like and how it functions? Does high school prepare you for the challenges and opportunities that will come your way in the future?
When it comes down to whether school, specifically high school, does or doesn’t prepare a kid for the world, it gets pretty split in what people think. People who think school prepares them for the real world say that because school teaches them responsibility and other hard and soft skills, that normally if a kid were just born and told to live, they’d struggle to learn. Some examples would be basic math, reading, writing, communication, teamwork, multi-tasking, and much more. Other reasons people would argue that schools prepare them would be because of certain classes schools offer like personal finance, living skills, child growth and development, building skills, and many more. However, not everyone thinks that schools prepare them for what life will randomly throw their way.
Other people don’t agree that schools prepare them for what will happen because most classes that a person will take don’t usually fall into what they will be when they are older. People also say school does offer you opportunities for real-life experiences that could happen, but they don’t teach you real things that will happen to you in life. A bigger reason is the reassessments and lack of accountability that school constantly provides for daily work, which doesn’t accurately prepare kids for the consequences that will happen in the real world and places like college or work. For instance, many people who went to college come back and reported that they were not prepared for things like midterms and final exams because they never experienced them in high school. Additionally, they also said they felt like they never properly studied because they knew they had safety nets of reassessments.
High school is very important to teenagers because that is when they are about to graduate and get to be on their own, making their own decisions in whatever they do and whatever happens, and teenagers will gain much more responsability. What teenagers choose to do in high school will determine how prepared they will be when they are on their own.
