Higher Education
Higher Education
Since the end of middle school we have been told that in order to succeed in life you need to attend and graduate from a four year college. High school has embedded the common core classes into our curriculum to help prepare us to go right into a four year college right after high school. We have been bred into believing that there’s only one way to succeed in the real world.
Instead of going to one school straight into another, one should take the time and live a little and see what interest them so nothing is rushed. Sometimes in the end when you graduate and get the degree you wanted, that very same degree could end up in a box somewhere never to see daylight again. “Bachelor's degrees pay off for jobs that don't even require one: secretaries, plumbers and cashiers” (Source D). Lot’s of there’s job’s pay well and cost no money to get. Of course [insert comma] you’ll have to gain experience by working your way up to that position. Sounds a whole lot better than spending a fortune on getting a job that you could get on your on [wrong word - revise] . If college is the place for you [insert comma] “the time, energy, and money” that may have been put in might not pay off due to the lack of wage growth over the past sixteen years (Source D). Raising concerns about higher level education in America [fragment - please revise] .
Student loans and monetary payoff are all things that former college students want to pay off after they graduate. With that new fancy high paying job that they got. “57% of Americans say the higher education system in the United States fails to provide students with good value” for what they paid for (Source F). Colleges are so expensive theses [check and revise spelling] days [insert comma] in order for a student to attend college [insert comma] there [wrong word - revise] family has to help cover the cost. Colleges are expecting families to do this, [comma splice - please revise] “nearly every parent surveyed 94% say they expect their child to attend