Blog posts of '2014' 'December'

If you want to earn then you have to learn. Knowledge is wealth. The principle of the more you learn, the more you earn is also designed to be taken into consideration with what other people are learning as well. The more people choose a certain career path, the less the relative value of that degree or skill will be.

The Harsh Reality of Todays Education System.

• Were you taught how to balance a checkbook in high school?
• Did you learn how to properly behave in a job interview?
• Were you taught how to apply for a loan?

If you answered yes to all of the above questions, then you are a rare commodity among average citizens. Many high schools today are not appropriately preparing students to enter into the working world.

To emphasize this point, according to the report Are They Really Ready to Work, in 2006,

“More than 40 percent of respondents believe that current high school graduates are deficient in overall preparation for entry into the workforce, while less than 1 percent rated graduates as excellent”
(Griffin and Kaleba, para. 3).

As you can infer from the above statistic, this is a major problem that many of the students coming out of the education system are lacking basic life and personal financial skills.

In fact, according to a USA Today article by Marcie Lipsitt, an education advocate, “Of those who graduate, about half [of high school students] don’t have the skills they need to succeed in today’s workforce” (Lipsitt, para. 2). Therefore high school curriculum standards need to be transformed in order to properly prepare students for success in the real working world.