According to a Harvard study, there has been a lot of attention and focus towards classroom based academics rather than other skills that lead to non-college careers. The article stated that today's youth have been trained for college and not prepared for a career as mutually exclusive options. One idea to ponder that was brought up, was to create a multi track system after high school. Kati Haycock, President of the Education Trust stated, "Every single time we create multiple tracks, we always send disproportionate numbers of poor kids and kids of color down the lessor one."
I agree for the most part about how the education system is narrowly focused about steering kids to go a college route only and leaving other options out of the picture. I think it's important to have those other options for students who want to go those routes and not to feel less of a person for wanting a non-professional career. In all reality, not everyone is made to go to college for whatever limiting reasons there may be for those individuals, and I think we'd be doing a disservice for not having more preparatory courses of action for these students.
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