Hey kid…what do you want to be when you grow up?

Do you remember being asked what you wanted to be in the 5h grade? What did you say? Well, most likely it wasn’t the same thing you aspire to be today. A new study projects an interesting form of European ideology that suggests kids start training right out of middle school for jobs that only require vocational training opposed to learning with the idea that they will be attending a four-year college. I believe that this program, which relies on the response of middle school kids, would hurt America’s children more than it would help them.

The article discussing this profound issue was found at Yahoo.com by the informative title: “Study says college isn’t for everyone”. Liz Goodwin wrote this intriguing article based upon a study done by Harvard University.

School is a place where everyone has a chance to become the President of the United States. A classroom is a place that doesn’t judge you, but teaches you with the promise that someday you will be greater than it. A program lead by a European country is obviously going to work in a European country, but who is to say that a learning style such as this will be held successful in this country. The article states that the point is not to profile children into taking these opportunities, but I can’t seem to agree with that. Children don’t always know what’s best for them.

I believe the education system tries to excel everyone equally by giving him or her the same opportunities and chances. A child that struggles in school doesn’t deserve to be punished and thrown into another field just because he or she doesn’t excel quickly enough; I feel that a system that gives children a chance to give up will do this to them. What struggling children need is a good teacher to inspire them to be anything in the world, not a person telling them that there is an easy way out of this solution.