Education that prepares people to work in a trade
(The Importance of learning a skill)
By: Rodrick Freeman McCray
It seems that almost every teenager is willing to pack up from there parent's house and live out on there own. However many don't have any real work experience or skill to claim a real job. High school may teach students valuable knowledge but what about after when they graduate; a large number of students will most likely not attend to receive a higher education. Most likely they will continue to work dead end jobs or attend vocational school where they can learn a trade that will be able to negative them through the work force. With the benefits with a vocational education so many opportunities are able to such as engineering, accountancy, nursing, medicine, architecture and law enforcement. There are even ways for you earn an apprenticeship in which you can go to school learning a skill while also working.
The main core of this online journal is that Vocational education should be offered to all high school students before they graduate. In a survey conducted by Ellen Gantenbein a senior sports editor at a newspaper called the southerner, reported that there were 36 things on the list ranging from cleaning a toilet to knowing how to apply for insurance. On average many students checked off 21 out the 36 which classified as a 58% which means that those students were pretty much helpless in the real world. Nevertheless there was a bright side with most of the students living and growing up in an urban area 96% know how to use the public transportation system, but still lack in many of the other areas. 36% of the undergraduates have experienced lesson on how to jump start a car and 20% have receive knowledge on how to take out loans and understand the bases of how they work. With yours truly begin 18 I would be dealing with the same situation. Many subsequent generations don't even know how to do basic house hold task like doing laundry and cooking when your on your own cooking is important some of course don't even think about it. Either they get money from there parents to buy school lunch or they arrive at home to find the smell of recognizable cuisine inches away from their mouths. It seems like a lot of what your parents did for you while growing up could have may as well handicapped you to suffer when you finally do move out. In order to live comfortably and maintain all your investments
Internationally a vocational education is widely popular among many of the young students there in Australia vocational education is mostly post-secondary and provided through there training system by registered organizations. However some schools-based apprenticeships allow adolescents around the ages of 10, 11, and 12. There are 24 technical colleges in country. Their apprenticeship system includes both traditional apprenticeships in traditional trades and traineeships in other more service-oriented occupations. That also involves a legal contract between the employer and the apprentice so a combined school based and workplace training environment will make likely make the student more like to have more success at the skill they desire. Even other countries such as Finland, Russia, the European Union, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Malaysia and in many more places of the world provided a great amount of the tools for an young person with the dream of staring off a exceptional work career. The life long adventure of adulthood can be quiet resilient so it's best to starting learning as initial as conceivable. Vocational school also teaches you live skills that may one day save you from making a wrong move that could cost you the comforts of your once accustom lifestyle
In order to live comfortably and maintain all your investments you need to know how to take care of them. For example a car so many items to checked in short amounts of time that you may end up waking up one morning calling or emailing in your supervisor that your either going to late today or that you'll miss a day of work. Oh that also bring me to the fact with the order of a budget you can't go over your spending limit while grocery shopping or you'll have to store some of your money away for a rainy day. Having the knowledge of financial literacy skills is a skill that is greatly anemic among the better numbers of high school students with the heavy responsibly of getting several types of insurance to taking out loans and having the power of a credit card right at the edge of finger tips. Those whom were never really though the reasonability will learn as they go and as we all know that's not always the most brilliant road to take. Maybe its assumed by most people that these are skills that will taught by the parents but it's not always a reasonable expectation. What if the parents weren't clear on some the lessons of adulthood themselves. Nonetheless their is a solution in other parts of the state and country schools have a class called “Family and Consumer Sciences” which covers many of the basic task for homemakers and finical skills that could last a student a lifetime of being prepared in whatever life throws there way.
Its pretty straight forward leaving high school unprepared can cause great amount of anxiety among those students whom are being pressured constantly by there parents to move out and start making on their own. It seem quiet cruel sometimes but with this constant reminders crossing the thoughts of your head you'll never forget that you have to learn all the skills you can to make a life for yourself. At a certain point its going to be up to you achieve the goals so learn as much as you can when you can. It's like American lawyer and democratic politician Wendy Davis once declared "The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done." All of these basic “life skills” are the things every person needs to know in order to successfully live on their own. These aren’t things that should be pushed to the side and left for students to find out at the last moment by then it's already to late mistakes have been made and sometimes there is no telling how serious of mistake you made.
Work Cited
"Vocational Education." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 08 Oct. 2016.
Gantenbein, Ellen. "We Need to Leave High School with Real Life Skills." The Southerner. The South High The Southerner, 4 June 2014. Web. 08 Oct. 2016.
