Examining How to Best Prepare Teens for the Future

Not all students go to college. Some go straight into the workforce and most of them are not prepared for what lies ahead. The boss doesn't check every thing you do to make sure it's right or even done at all. Many students are fired because they cannot handle the responsibility of managing their time wisely and have no specialized training.

Preparing teens for the future is the question I am addressing. The future can be defined as job retention. We need to give students some idea of how it's going to be after high school. Teachers need to stop teaching students to tests and start teaching them life skills.

There are many uncertainties to consider when dealing with how to prepare teens for the future. Take for example many teens don't get the chance to go to college because of uncertainties in their lives, such as not being able to pay for college or receiving a government grant because their parents income falls just above the amount you can make in order to receive financial aid. We could also say that their grades are just half a point below where they need to be in order to receive a scholarship. The student has no possible way of coming up with thousands of dollars to go to school so instead they enter the workforce and live at poverty level or just below property while barely making enough money working at McDonald's to pay for all their bills. In this situation it appears the student may never go to college because they are not making enough to save for college.