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media type="file" key="Life lesso.m4a" width="144" height="60"“Do we have to wait a life-time to learn life lessons?”

By: Rekeyia Sherrell From the time we start school as kindergarteners until the time we graduate as seniors, it is instilled in us how to be a “well-rounded student.” But at some point in time we are dumped into the “grown-up world” too survive on our own. But the problem is that half of us don’t know how to be grown-ups. Many young adults, both in college and coming out of college make mistakes as they enter adult-hood. The mistakes we make are not easy fixes, they are things we end up having to deal with the rest of our lives. The mistakes we make are a result of the life lessons we were never taught.

College students often make careless decisions such as applying for credit cards that eventually put them in debt. But if at some point in our life we were taught how to manage money, and balance checkbooks, we wouldn’t fall into serious debt.

We often can’t succeed in a job interview, or we stumble when we have to give big presentations and proposals. But what if some point in our life we took a class in public speaking,

Men at this age still don’t know how to treat a lady, and ladies still don’t know how to carry themselves respectably. But what if a self-respect or etiquette class was offered.

Would a less amount of students stay clear of violating the law if they were actually knowlgeable of laws they could possibly violate? Not wait until they break they law and the officer says ignorance is not an excuse.

I am not at all proposing that academic classes should be reduced. But I think the curriculum put in place for high school students should be revised. Is it absolutely necessary that every student spend time learning every single part of the cell if only ¼ of them will even think about the medical or scientific field? Or would if be more beneficial to present a class that will set students up for life and use college as a time for those individual focuses.

Many people especially administrators will no agree with this take on schooling. But I cant help it if I often find things stressed in school to be very pointless, and wish I was learning a life skill that will help me to succeed. If school is to prepare us for our future then it should help in all aspects because I do not want to take a lifetime to learn a life lesson.