Learning the best way possible is proven to be shown through hands-on work for kids. In school you have to spend one hundred and eighty days in school each year and around 13 years in total in school to graduate. Kids go through so many different classes and most of them come out not knowing how to buy a house, pay bills, and most importantly, know life skills for everyday living. This is a problem nationwide for our school system. 

What High School Presents

High school presents not enough information for future students' lives. Mrs. Kline talks about how in school we don’t present on how to buy a house, pay bills, write a check, or how to save money because teachers have expectations for those students to know the basics on how things work in high school.  

But how are kids supposed to know this when they have not been taught it at all? Also, teachers expect parents to help their children with these expectations. This could be a problem for the kids who don’t have a figure in their life where they can get help. Mrs. Kline states, “Why we won't teach these classes, I don’t have a good answer, because we should be teaching kid’s this information to grow up.” 

High school presents a lot of tests and quizzes in the format of writing and using a computer. Mr. Kasian talks about how it is good that we have tests for certain subjects including math, writing, and science but we should be limited on how much we do on a chrome book.  Writing will help students with essays and debates. Science is good for labs and projects. Math is good for writing and rewriting problems to make your brain think. These are some positive sides of High School classes that are presented to kids. 

The one thing school is presenting is how we don't have practical classes for kids most importantly. “Our society for High School kids is not practical,” Mr. Kasian states.

A lot of schools also talk about how some kids are presented with teachers who aren’t into teaching anymore and don’t have the courage to be a good teacher. Mike Stout states, “They knew before they signed up they wanted to be a good teacher but they forgot their way. If you're not getting through to the kids on how to understand things then why are you spending your time still being a teacher or maybe you need to switch up on how you are teaching kids.”

What High School Can Present 

High School could present so many different ways of learning. Mr. Kasian suggests hands on learning, tactile learning, visual learning, auditory learning, kinesthetic learning. Learning these five can help make kids balanced and well rounded with learning. 

We need sensible classes for etiquette, manners, and leadership. Mr. Kasian proved that we need public speaking courses to help with character based education. 

Showing kids practical things will help them grow up and mature. Kasian states, “We live in a society where we don’t have anything practical.” Students are taught so much of lack of values, lack of hard work, lack of leadership, lack of professionalism. This all helps with daily living skills. 

Mrs. Kline talks about the career and readiness class we do have but this class is taught to freshmen. By the time you graduate you aren’t going to remember what you have been taught. This would be more valuable for those students who are seniors. 

Mrs. Kline informs that the seniors she teaches have jobs. 

Mrs. Kline states, “I’ve noticed that the seniors I teach, the jobs they have make higher than minimum wage but they aren’t thinking about the outcomes to some of these other jobs.” This proves that we should be teaching seniors the career and readiness class. These senior students' outcomes of benefits they should be thinking about are health insurance, dental insurance, eye care, retirement or 401K. These are perks to some of these jobs. These are things that are useful to know. 

Mike Stout retells how classes in middle school like art and woodshop don’t last in High School education. He informs us that we should have these mandatory classes of home economics, sewing classes, wood class, metal class, cooking class. Mike Stout states, “It makes you well rounded. This helps kids grow.”

An example he gave was, what if a kid was sitting at home waiting for his parents to do his laundry, make dinner, and sew clothes for the kid. Why wait when you can do it by yourself and be independent and mature.  

Mike Stout introduces in a real job setting you are tested everyday with your job. Why don’t we have this in school? Having hands on learning tests and quizzes would help with understanding jobs more for the real world for students. More students would understand the concept of what they are being taught and what is happening in the moment. 

To conclude,  High School students should be getting prepared for real life situations. The school system can help this by presenting to students real life situations on how to grow up and be prepared for the world. This is an opportunity to change and revolve to make greater things happen for the future of our School System not just for students but for teachers.