High Schools Need For Students With Tools For Everyday Life

Each year, high schools across America send students out into the world without the skills they need to succeed. Admittedly, students learn the required academics to move onto the next level, but the basic skills required in life are being put aside and forgotten. Today, high achieving seniors will graduate understanding how to find the definite integral of a function and preform electrophoresis, but they will not know everyday skills including how to file their taxes or changing the oil in their car. In order to succeed in the real world, high schools need to equip students with tools for everyday life. The numerous tools students need includes knowing how to become financially stable. â€Å"In 2013, approximately 10.9 million school-age†¦show more content†¦The first day the teacher informs the students that the class is the most important class of their entire life. If this class was so important, and it is, why is it only one semester? In this class, students barely mak e it through the basics of economics let alone learn to manage their own money. Investing, bank accounts, marketing, and retirement are all mentioned during the class, but the teacher never informs the class how to go about doing them in real life. If students never learn basic financial skills in school, they will not obtain the necessary skills to save for retirement and file taxes. Schools are digging graves for the nation’s economy class by class. Besides not being economically ready for life, high schools deprive graduates of many other life skills necessary for success. For the 2014-2015 school year it was projected that 2.2 million of 3.3 million students enrolled straight into post secondary education (Education Commission of the, States). That leaves 1.1 million students going straight into the world of adulthood. High schools must take responsibility and make sure these young adults know how to manage living by themselves. Ignored basic skills, including doing the l aundry and cooking a decent meal, are necessary in life and ought to be taught to students. Millions high school graduates will go off into the world this year unaware of how to function in society. After thirty five hours a week for thirteen years sitting in a