Still Figuring It Out

It's ironic how adults say us teenagers are "just children", that we "don't know anything about the world" making us feel diminutive but expects us to decide our whole life path once we start getting into high school. Every student carries the constant pressure on their shoulders to decided their future and life plan ahead of them.

Yes, some students do know exactly what college they want to go and what job they want to achieve  but many others don't. Teenagers are expected to go into the adult whole without any experience and believe they will get everything right on first try. However that is an surreal expectation, most adults between their twenties through late thirties are still juggling from picking different jobs and deciding what is their stable job. Most don't even get the job they dreamed of after all that time and money  spent of studying and schooling. 

The education system in American should have schools create more opportunities for students to understand the world outside of a classroom. Students should understand more on how to be able to survive on their own, experience different fields of jobs to decided which job is best for them when the time comes to make a choice. 

Future students shouldn't be stressed about school and have mental downs when they feel as if they are failing in school. Students get labelled by their grades and not by other aspects of them such as honesty, hardworking, creativity, and a positive aspect.  

Also instead of always having a final in each semester, it would be better and easier for students to take finals for each quarter. There is less subjects to memorize,it's current and fresh information that students still have in their minds. This would definitively ease a student's mind since they are most likely get higher test scores than if they take semester finals. 

When I think about educational systems and colleges, I think of my own family's person experience. My older sister that studied in Pepperdine University in Malibu to study law for 4 years and received  a bachelor for it decided it wasn't the career path for her. All that stress and time spent in college to just never use it again is absurd. 

A person's mind and purse in life is always changing, teenagers shouldn't be expected to have only one career path but instead expand their view of the world and experience. 

-Nayeli Gracian