This article triggered me to finally write what I’ve been keeping in my head for awhile now…
I think this is the beginning to an excellent idea. If a younger person is capable of passing tests and is driven to start on their college career at an earlier age, then I think they have the right to do so. This sort of policy should be implemented everywhere. The economy or board of education (whoever is in charge of calling these sort of shots) has the whole education system backwards. I don’t know if they realize it but they’re keeping us in an establishment that promotes staying young minded.
Now days an AA is losing its value and people are saying that a BA is beginning to be equivalent to an AA and if you really want to make good money you need to get a Masters or PhD. Why are they prolonging our time into adulthood? Everyone is not an “adult” at 18, or at least the majority of them don’t have the responsibilities as one. Many 18 year olds are still living at home with their parents paying for their roof over their heads, the food in their stomach, car payments and higher education. Some don’t even know how to wash their own clothes yet alone cook for themselves. This is not only caused by their parents over nurturing their young but from a community that requires that they stay in school till their in their late twenties to early thirties so they may earn a diploma that is supposed to equal big mon$y.
I am not against higher education and I am not saying that those who receive it don’t make more money, I am simply stating the obvious, the education system in the U.S. needs to change. Teachers need to be paid more, education establishments need to get more money from the government, the standards we hold our students to need to be lifted, art, political science and economics needs to be implemented more, life skills that teaches one how to open a checking and savings account, fill out an application, do a resume, wash clothes, grocery shop, budget, write professionally, clean, more computer skills, customer service, manners, file taxes, investing, etc. These are basic skills that many of us are lacking.
The longer they keep us in school the longer it takes us to apply are skills to the economy, live at our parents, have our parents support us, make money, save money, travel the world, own a house, own a business, have a family, enjoy time with that family and retire. Many of us now are living it up during our early “adult” years, 18-28 because it’s taken us that long to acquire adult responsibilities or graduate with the appropriate diploma. By allowing our education system to push our young to start their higher education sooner rather then later we are building our society up and forward into a brighter future where they can enjoy their youth, money and family at the same time if they chose.
