I come from a community where farming is a way of life and it is completely normal for students to go straight into farming after graduating instead of going to college, which I find perfectly fine if that is what the student is skilled at doing. However, other students in the school are intelligent enough that they are going to college to be a doctor or a lawyer, and that is fine too. My only opinion is, like Graff, I wish that schools would look more into finding different topics to talk about or different ways of teaching so it would interest all the students, not just the ones who are book smart. Everyone in my school is smart; it just might be that they are smart in different topics than what teachers are used to …show more content…
Which I believe that to succeed in the workforce a person must compete with others to continue getting higher in their job. Instead of getting a grade or points for doing good in school, after graduation people have to compete for money by doing well at their jobs. The better a person competes in the workforce the higher they will go on the pay scale. It doesn’t matter if the person is book smart or street smart as long as they do their job well and compete with other employees well, they will be able to go higher and further than the