Do you as a young adult in High School feel to much attention and emphasis is placed on college and not enough on vocational/technical? Do you feel if more emphasis was placed on education for a career/trade immediatley after high school there would be less drop outs or students who do not care? Seems to me when my daughters were in High School all I ever heard about was what students had to do for college etc. Counselors spent all their time with the college bound. Do you feel if you are not going to college schools should be doing a better job preparing you for the working world.
2006-06-28 05:18:51 · 12 answers · asked by badmikey4 4 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Adolescent
I've always felt the Junior/Senior year should be geared for college prep for those planning to go OR vocational/technical for those who do not. There is no reason a young adult should leave high school and not at least be involved in a trade if they are not going to college. Seniors ARE adults and if not properly prepared for a decent trade after graduation then they tend to drift into and out of jobs. How many students are informed how much an Auto Tech, electrician, miilwright, machinest, etc. make.
2006-06-28 05:54:34 · update #1
I work with Kids, I will read every post, sorry about posting, not in High school, but I work in a Juvenile Court and this information is very important to me. I get to make decision on kids and this information will help young people. Thanks ! again sorry for posting, 55 and alive.
2006-06-28 05:21:10 · answer #1 · answered by Juvenile 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I graduated highschool in '99 but i felt that way then. My dad told me vocational was for dumb kids and since I wasn't dumb i was going to college. I just wanted to go to vocational so i would have a career while I went through college and he wouldn't let me. After highschool I didn't know what I wanted to do and I ended up not going to school right away. Now I'm almost 25, married, and a mom and I'm fighting my way through college.
2006-06-28 05:22:57 · answer #2 · answered by Brandie C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Schools should spend more time on career/vocational schools, but it is highly unlikely that they are going to do that. The college bound students are the "smartest" students in school, so the school naturally spends more time and money on them in hopes of increasing the school's reputation. Better reputations = better ratings = more funding. It all boils down to money (and we can thank Bush for spending so much money on the war and so little on education).
Unfortunately for students who aren't going to college, they are looked down upon as inferior, so they don't get the resources and counselor time that the collegebound students do. It's a big problem within our schools, but it's hard to fix.
2006-07-01 15:43:51 · answer #3 · answered by Toppledate 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My school is from 7-12 grade. You have to test to get in. It's classical and Latin (yes Latin) is required for 3 years. If you go there your pretty much going to college. Everyone graduates, because those who don't have the requirements for graduation all have the requirments to fail out. 95% of graduates graduate from college. So if you go to my school, you go there because you want to go to college, and everyone there, as far as I know, does. I think if you want to have a career or technical job right after highschool you should go to Woodwad career technical, not Walnut Hills.
2006-06-28 06:40:27 · answer #4 · answered by millancad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. students should have an idea of what they want to do, so thats how counselor go from. the know who needs to go to college, and who college isnt right for. they advise technical school also, and there really arent that many req for technical schools (from experience), so they help get as much help for college
2006-06-28 05:24:48 · answer #5 · answered by here to help 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
at my high school they considered college any type of school after high school...I was thinking about going to Cosmotology school and that is still consided a college even though its only 2 years..then i decided i wanted to become a Nurse and that is 4-6 years...just depends on what the person is interested in doing
2006-06-28 05:24:13 · answer #6 · answered by sjeboyce 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dude school sucks thats why people quit stop making it out to be a real probleme the probleme is it ******* sucks dude i gratuated but can fully understand the people that say **** it u klnow school sucks and it always will be its just sad that now a days if u dont have a degree or something u are a full time wal-mart employee hahah and thats not a career no matter how much wal-mart wants to make u think it is
2006-06-28 05:21:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
well i know at my school there are a few special programs for students who know what they want to do. for instance, i am in the school of health careers academey, which focuses my core studies into the health care feild. through this program i am able to do internships and get certified in some basic health careers to help pay for college. i also know of a technonlgy academy and a buisness academey.
2006-06-28 05:23:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah.
all they talk bout is college this and college that and what schools are good.
but the good ones they want us toget into aren't with the subjects we might wanna study
2006-06-28 05:23:39 · answer #9 · answered by wlv 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to colelge when i graduate
2006-06-28 06:34:38 · answer #10 · answered by We Can Make The Night Last 4Ever 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋