Teaching Hope: DISILLUSIONMENT

Without reading anymore of this chapter, the 76th excerpt sums up my teaching goals in one small segment. In this story there is a boy who works hard in all his classes, has set goals for life, and like his family before him wants to be a mechanic, because of his love for muscle cars. This student works hard, yet cannot pass a world-civics exam, or the rest of the standardized tests. In his line of work he does not need a civics test to prove he do mechanics, nor does he need english or other subjects. A student like this should be in a trade school working on what he wants to do in life, rather than be put through all these classes that he will never use, and find use for. Our society tries to get every student “college” ready because that's what we want for every student. Well I can tell you, that some kids can get a trade, not go to college and make as good of money  if not better than students who did go to college.

I am so sick of the stigma that everyone needs to go to college, and everyone playing into it, by going thousands of dollar in debt, for a job that 10 years ago was an entry level job. Our country has made this push for everyone to go to college, because of money and that is the only reason why. If a child wants to be a mechanic and they know that for sure, let them go to a trade school, and learn that, it's better than trying to push them through school where they struggle and don't get their diploma. Now they are left with no diploma, and no trade. They have nothing, and that is the type of person who brings this country in the opposite direction of the push everyone is making.Not a person with a trade who does not go to college. Everyone needs to stop forming this country into something it’s not and driving it to the breaking point, where you will need a doctorate soon to work at McDonalds..